Kosmoceratops
Field photograph to come
Kosmoceratops
DV-0745
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Sampson et al. 2010
Field notes
About Kosmoceratops
Kosmoceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Ceratopsidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Kosmoceratops, from Utah. Its fossils come from the Kaiparowits Formation. It was named by Sampson et al. in 2010.
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 Ceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. D. Sampson, M. A. Loewen, and A. A. Farke, E. M. Roberts, C. A. Forster, J. A. Smith, A. L. Titus. 2010. New horned dinosaurs from Utah provide evidence for intracontinental dinosaur endemism. PLoS One 5(9):e12292:1-12