Coahuilaceratops
Field photograph to come
Coahuilaceratops
DV-0728 · type species Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- Mexico
- Named by
- Loewen et al. 2010
Field notes
About Coahuilaceratops
Coahuilaceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Ceratopsidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Coahuilaceratops, from Mexico. It was named by Loewen et al. in 2010.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: M. A. Loewen, S. D. Sampson, and E. K. Lund, A. A. Farke, M. C. Aguillón-Martínez, C. A. de Leon, R. A. Rodríguez-de la Rosa, M. A. Getty, D. A. Eberth. 2010. Horned dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico. New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington