Hualianceratops
Field photograph to come
Hualianceratops
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- Lived
- 162 to 155 million years ago, Late Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Chaoyangsauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Han et al. 2015
Field notes
About Hualianceratops
Hualianceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Jurassic, 162 to 155 million years ago. It belongs to the family Chaoyangsauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Hualianceratops, from China. Its fossils come from the Shishugou Formation. It was named by Han et al. in 2015.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
160 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Chaoyangsauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. Han, C. A. Forster, and J. M. Clark, X. Xu. 2015. A new taxon of basal ceratopsian from China and the early evolution of Ceratopsia. PLoS ONE 10(12):e0143369:1-23