Navajoceratops
Name:
Navajoceratops
(Navajo horned face).
Phonetic: Nav-ah-ho-seh-rah-tops.
Named By: D. W. Fowler & E. A.
Freedman Fowler - 2020.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ceratopsidae, Chasmosaurinae.
Species: N. sullivani
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: USA, New Mexico - Kirtland
Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull (parietal
bones).
Navajoceratops
is a genus of ceratopsian
dinosaur that lived in North America during
the late Cretaceous. At the time of the description Navajoceratops
is
known only from a partial skull bones that a reveal a little of the
shape of the neck frill. These suggest that Navajoceratops
was a
chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur.
Further reading
- Transitional evolutionary forms in chasmosaurine ceratopsid
dinosaurs: evidence from the Campanian of New Mexico. - PeerJ
8:e9251. - D. W. Fowler & E. A. Freedman Fowler
- 2020.
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