Hualianceratops
Name:
Hualianceratops
(ornamental horned face).
Phonetic: Hu-ah-le-an-seh-rah-tops.
Named By: F. Han, C. A. Forster, J. M.
Clark & X. Xu - 2015.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ceratopsian, Chaoyangsauridae.
Species: H. wucaiwanensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Skull roughly estimated about 24.5
centimetres long. Total body length uncertain due to lack of remains.
Known locations: China, Xinjiang - Shishugou
Formation.
Time period: Oxfordian of the Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and jaws.
Some partial post cranial bones are known.
Hualianceratops
is a genus of small ceratopsian
dinosaur that lived in China during the
Late Jurassic. Identified as a member of the Chaoyangsauridae group
of ceratopsians, Hualianceratops would have been
a small and bipedal
herbivore.
Further reading
- A new taxon of basal
ceratopsian from China and the early evolution of Ceratopsia. - PLoS
ONE 10(12):e0143369:1-23. - F. Han, C. A. Forster,
J. M. Clark & X. Xu - 2015.
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