Gremlin

DV-1205 · type species Gremlin slobodorum

Lived: 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ceratopsians, Leptoceratopsidae
Found in: Canada and United States
Named by: Ryan et al. 2023

Field notes

About Gremlin

Gremlin 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 2 finds of Gremlin, from Alberta and Montana. Its fossils come from rocks including the Oldman Formation and the Two Medicine Formation. It was named by Ryan et al. in 2023.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

2 finds

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Leptoceratopsidae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: M. J. Ryan, L. Micucci, and H. Rizo, C. Sullivan, Y.-N. Lee, D. C. Evans. 2023. A new Late Cretaceous leptoceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada. Windows into Sauropsid and Synapsid Evolution: Essays in Honor of Prof. Louis L. Jacobs