How to View Pentaceratops in 3D
Pentaceratops 3D Viewer runs a chicken-sized Late Cretaceous European theropod in your browser. Drag to rotate, scroll or pinch to zoom, toggle a 1.8 m person for scale, and click a body region for a fossil-sourced fact.
Open the Pentaceratops page and take the camera
Open the Pentaceratops 3D Viewer and wait for the facts panel to fill. When the status line says you can drag, orbit Pentaceratops with the pointer and zoom with the scroll wheel or a two-finger pinch. Fullscreen expands the wrapper so the controls stay visible beside the scene. After first paint a license-clean CC0 1.0 glTF may swap in automatically from the CDN; if that load fails the page stays on the procedural ceratopsian silhouette with zero regression.
Use the four Pentaceratops controls under the canvas
Under the Pentaceratops canvas, four controls handle view and scale:
- Fullscreen - fills the display while keeping the buttons visible
- Stop rotation / Auto-rotate - freezes or resumes auto-spin
- Idle motion - adds subtle body sway; tap again for Stand still
- Size vs human - shows a 1.8 m person at the honest panel length ratio used by the viewer (6 m)
Read the Pentaceratops facts panel and click a body part
The Pentaceratops facts panel lists length about 5.5-7 m commonly cited near 6 m (panel baseline 6 m), skull length about 2.16-2.3 m among genuine specimens (panel baseline 2.3 m), mass about 2.5-3 t (panel baseline 2.5 t), the Late Cretaceous Campanian window about 76-73 million years ago from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, herbivore diet, and naming Pentaceratops sternbergii by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1923. Its name means five-horned face - two brow horns, one nasal horn, and two epijugal cheek projections beneath an unusually large frill. The guide deliberately does not cite the OMNH 10165 Guinness-record skull, now reassigned to Titanoceratops. A short click - not a drag - on a body region surfaces a short fossil fact. Soft-tissue color is an artistic reconstruction. When the CC0 1.0 glTF by Manicaeks via OpenGameArt pentaceratops loads, the status text notes a real model with that credit - a stylized reconstruction, not a laser scan. This model is not a fossil-accurate skeleton.
What the Pentaceratops how-to guide is not
The Pentaceratops how-to guide is a controls walkthrough for the in-browser viewer only - it does not place the model in your room (no AR), it does not invent a single mass outside the published 2.5-3 t range, it does not cite the reassigned OMNH 10165 Guinness skull (Titanoceratops) into one headline number, it does not invent soft-tissue color accuracy, it does not invent game score or win states, and it does not claim the optional glTF is a scientifically exact reconstruction. For the size story see Pentaceratops size comparison. For trade-offs versus phone AR apps see Pentaceratops 3D viewer vs AR apps.
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