Furcatoceratops is a recently discovered centrosaurine ceratopsid from Montana’s Judith River Formation. The holotype specimen is an 80% complete subadult that includes much of the skull, both the left front and hind legs, parts of the pelvis, and a good many vertebrae and ribs. Furcatoceratops is estimated to have been up to four metres long as an adult, lived around 75.6 million years ago, and was closely related to Avaceratops and Nasutoceratops.
CollectA has included the very first ever Furcatoceratops toy in their 2025 prehistoric assortment, and as part of their Popular series, it is the smallest of the lot. It measures just about 11 cm long from the tip of its beak to the end of its tail.
This little chap or chapette is ambling along with its right front and left hind legs stepping forward and its left front and right hind legs extended back. The tail is raised well off the ground, the head is facing directly forward, and the mouth is open. A perfectly nice active pose, appropriate for taking a constitutional or marching into battle. As a Judith River resident, Furcatoceratops’ contemporaries would have included Avaceratops, Medusaceratops, and Spiclypeus, the hadrosaur Brachylophosaurus, and the ankylosaur Zuul. And its main predator? Daspletosaurus, of course. And possibly Deinosuchus on occasion.
The Furcatoceratops‘ main colour is a dark grey-green with large brown patches on its flanks and tail. The underbelly is light grey and the claws are beige. The head is also grey-green with brown patches, and features glossy black eyes, a pink tongue, beige eppocipitals and beak, and beige horns with dark brown tips. It is by no means the flashiest ceratopsian CollectA has released, but it is a realistic one that would look right at home in an episode of the superb Prehistoric Planet.
The Furcatoceratops‘ snout is particularly large and deep, with a pronounced ridge on top. By contrast, its curved brow horns are relatively small. One can certainly see the family resemblance between it and Avaceratops and Nasutoceratops. Mind you, the holotype specimen is not fully grown, so perhaps a proper adult’s horns were longer and more impressive. The frill is lined by small eppocipitals at the very top and much larger ones on the sides, which is in keeping with other restorations. There are also three rows of small osteoderms visible on the surface of the frill. The skin on the head has a bumpy, scaly texture.
The same scaly texture is to be found on the body, along with larger (but still quite small) osteoderms on the back. The limbs are pleasingly muscular and the feet have the correct arrangement of digits and correct number of claws. Very good sculpting here indeed, especially given the toy’s size.
And now let us address the biggest deal about this humble little ceratopsian: it has no filaments running down its rump. Beginning in 2012 with their 1:15 scale Triceratops and Triceratops corpse, CollectA put rows of filaments on the rumps of their ceratopsians, similar to those that Psittacosaurus is known to have possessed. It struck me as a neat idea at the time, but there was and still is no evidence to suggest that any ceratopsids had this feature, and paleontologists like Jim Kirkland and Darren Tanke have stated their disdain for it in no uncertain terms. But it would seem that that trend is over with at last. I do hope so. After all, there’s still a great many cool and exciting ceratopsids CollectA hasn’t yet tackled, including Agujaceratops, Anchiceratops, Bravoceratops, Coahuilaceratops, Judiceratops, Lokiceratops, Wendiceratops, and the one I’d particularly like to have from them, dear old Centrosaurus.
The CollectA Furcatoceratops is a most pleasing little toy, and I do strongly recommend it. And of course, I strongly appreciate CollectA sending me this review sample.
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