Cerasinops
Field photograph to come
Cerasinops
DV-0624 · type species Cerasinops hodgskissi
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Leptoceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Chinnery and Horner 2007
Field notes
About Cerasinops
Cerasinops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Leptoceratopsidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 3 finds of Cerasinops, from Montana. Its fossils come from the Two Medicine Formation. It was named by Chinnery and Horner in 2007.
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 Leptoceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: B. J. Chinnery and J. R. Horner. 2007. A new neoceratopsian dinosaur linking North American and Asian taxa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):625-641