Ceratosaurus was a meat-eating dinosaur that lived in north america and europe during the late jurassic period. It had a distinctive horn on its snout and a row of small, bony armour pieces. Ceratosaurus was a carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur that lived during the late jurassic period, between approximately 156 and 145 million years ago.

Ceratosaurus, (genus ceratosaurus), large carnivorous dinosaurs whose fossils date from the late jurassic period (161 million to 146 million years ago) in north america and africa.