Machairoceratops
Field photograph to come
Machairoceratops
DV-0953 · type species Machairoceratops cronusi
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Lund et al. 2016
Field notes
About Machairoceratops
Machairoceratops 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 1 find of Machairoceratops, from Utah. Its fossils come from the Wahweap Formation. It was named by Lund et al. in 2016.
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: E. K. Lund, P. M. O'Connor, and M. A. Loewen, Z. A. Jinnah. 2016. A new centrosaurine ceratopsid, Machairoceratops cronusi gen et sp. nov., from the Upper Sand Member of the Wahweap Formation (Middle Campanian), southern Utah. PLoS ONE 11(5):e0154403:1-21