Ischioceratops
Field photograph to come
Ischioceratops
DV-0921 · type species Ischioceratops zhuchengensis
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Leptoceratopsidae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- He et al. 2015
Field notes
About Ischioceratops
Ischioceratops 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 1 find of Ischioceratops, from China. Its fossils come from the Hongtuya Formation. It was named by He et al. in 2015.
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: Y. He, P. J. Makovicky, and K. Wang, S. Chen, C. Sullivan, F. Han, X. Xu. 2015. A new leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) with a unique ischium from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0144148