Bisticeratops
Name:
Bisticeratops
(Bisti horned face).
Phonetic: Bis-te-seh-rah-tops.
Named By: Sebastian Dalman, Steven E. Jasinski
& Spencer G. Lucas - 2022.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ceratopsia, Ceratopsidae, Chasmosaurinae.
Species: B. froeseorum
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Preserved length of skull is about one and a
half meters, but this is missing most of the neck frill. Total size
uncertain.
Known locations: USA, New Mexico - Kirtland
Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull.
Bisticeratops
is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian
dinosaur that lived in North
America during the late Cretaceous. First named from only a skull,
Bisticeratops seems to have been quite typical of the chasmosaurine
ceratopsians.
Further reading
- A new chasmosaurine
ceratopsid from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Farmington Member
of the Kirtland Formation, New Mexico. - New Mexico Museum of
Natural History and Science Bulletin. 90: 127–153. -
Sebastian Dalman, Steven E. Jasinski & Spencer G.
Lucas
- 2022.
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