Ferenceratops
Field photograph to come
Ferenceratops
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- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians
- Found in
- Romania
- Named by
- Maidment et al. 2026
Field notes
About Ferenceratops
Ferenceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 8 finds of Ferenceratops, from Romania. Its fossils come from rocks including the Densuș-Ciula Formation, the Sînpetru Formation and the Jibou Formation. It was named by Maidment et al. in 2026.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsia.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. C. R. Maidment, R. J. Butler, and S. L. Brusatte, L. E. Meade, F. J. Augustin, Z. Csiki-Sava, A. Ősi. 2026. A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe. Nature