Agujaceratops
Field photograph to come
Agujaceratops
DV-0595 · type species Agujaceratops mariscalensis
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Lucas et al. 2006
Field notes
About Agujaceratops
Agujaceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Ceratopsidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 15 finds of Agujaceratops, from Texas. One find has also been reported from Mexico. Its fossils come from the Aguja Formation. It was named by Lucas et al. in 2006.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. G. Lucas, R. M. Sullivan, and A. P. Hunt. 2006. Re-evaluation of Pentaceratops and Chasmosaurus (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) in the Upper Cretaceous of the Western Interior. Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:367-370