Crittendenceratops
Field photograph to come
Crittendenceratops
DV-1020 · type species Crittendenceratops krzyzanowskii
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Dalman et al. 2018
Field notes
About Crittendenceratops
Crittendenceratops 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 2 finds of Crittendenceratops, from Arizona. Its fossils come from the Fort Crittenden Formation. It was named by Dalman et al. in 2018.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. G. Dalman, J.-P. M. Hodnett, and A. J. Lichtig, S. G. Lucas. 2018. A new ceratopsid dinosaur (Centrosaurinae: Nasutoceratopsini) from the Fort Crittenden Formation, Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of Arizona. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 79:141-164