Huge, plant-eating dinosaur named for Utah monument paleontologist

deseretnews.com

For the third time in five years, a Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument employee was honored by having a newly discovered dinosaur named for them.

The British scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society announced Wednesday that a new species of horned dinosaur unearthed at the monument is called Nasutoceratops titusi.

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