Ferenceratops

Field photograph to come

DV-1303Densuș-Ciula Fm., Romania

Ferenceratops

DV-1303

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

8 finds

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