Auroraceratops
Field photograph to come
Auroraceratops
DV-0562
- Lived
- 113 to 110 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- You et al. 2005
Field notes
About Auroraceratops
Auroraceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 113 to 110 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Auroraceratops, from China. Its fossils come from the Zhonggou Formation. It was named by You et al. in 2005.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
110 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Neoceratopsia.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: H. You, D. Li, and Q. Ji, M. C. Lamanna, P. Dodson. 2005. On a new genus of basal neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Gansu Province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 79(5):593-597