Gryphoceratops
Field photograph to come
Gryphoceratops
DV-0821 · type species Gryphoceratops morrisoni
- Lived
- 86 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Leptoceratopsidae
- Found in
- Canada
- Named by
- Ryan et al. 2012
Field notes
About Gryphoceratops
Gryphoceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 84 million years ago. It belongs to the family Leptoceratopsidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Gryphoceratops, from Alberta. Its fossils come from the Milk River Formation. It was named by Ryan et al. in 2012.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Leptoceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: M. J. Ryan, D. C. Evans, and P. J. Currie, C. M. Brown, D. Brinkman. 2012. New leptoceratopsids from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. Cretaceous Research 35(1):69-80