Helioceratops
Field photograph to come
Helioceratops
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- Lived
- 121 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Leptoceratopsidae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Jin et al. 2009
Field notes
About Helioceratops
Helioceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 121 to 101 million years ago. It belongs to the family Leptoceratopsidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Helioceratops, from China. Its fossils come from the Quantou Formation. It was named by Jin et al. in 2009.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
110 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Leptoceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: L. Jin, J. Chen, and S. Zan, P. Godefroit. 2009. A new basal neoceratopsian dinosaur from the middle Cretaceous of Jilin Province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 83(2):200-206