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Zuniceratops

Zuniceratops - Meaning: Zuni Horned Face

Zuniceratops (ZOO-nee-SAIR-ah-tops), was a Ceratopsian dinosaur lived in the mid- Turonian stage during the Late Cretaceous period, 93 - 89 million years ago, in New Mexico, USA. It lived earlier than the more familiar horned Ceratopsidae and provides an important window on their ancestry.

Dinosaur Zuniceratops

Zuniceratops Characteristics

Zuniceratops measured 11 feet (3.5 metres) in length, 3 feet (1 metre) tall at the hips and weighed around 150 kilograms (250 pounds). Zuniceratops is the earliest known ceratopsian to have eyebrow horns. The horns are thought to have grown much larger with age. It had a medium-sized frill extending from the back of its skull and a beak like snout with a small nasal horn. The frill behind its head was fenestrated (had openings) but lacking epoccipitals (bones found lining the frills). Zuniceratops was a quadrupedal dinosaur and moved around on its 4 strong, thick-set legs. It had a long pointed tail

Zuniceratops was a herbivore like other ceratopsians and was probably a herd dinosaur.

 

Zuniceratops was discovered in 1996, by 8 year old Christopher James Wolfe, son of paleontologist Douglas G. Wolfe, in the Moreno Hill Formation in west-central New Mexico. One skull and the bones from several individuals have been found.

 

Zuniceratops was named by Douglas G. Wolfe and James I. Kirkland in 1998.

Zuniceratops was featured in the Discovery Channel Special, When Dinosaurs Roamed America.

ZUNICERATOPS CLASSIFICATION:
Kingdom:
Animalia (animals)
Phylum:
Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain)
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
Ornithischia
Suborder:
Marginocephalia
Infraorder:
Ceratopsia
Genus:
Zuniceratops
Species:
Z. christopheri Wolfe and Kirkland, 1998 (type)









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