Medusaceratops

Field photograph to come

DV-0749Judith River Fm., Montana

Medusaceratops

DV-0749 · type species Medusaceratops lokii

Lived
84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
Found in
United States
Named by
Ryan et al. 2010

Field notes

About Medusaceratops

Medusaceratops 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 Medusaceratops, from Montana. Its fossils come from the Judith River Formation. It was named by Ryan et al. in 2010.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Ceratopsidae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: M. J. Ryan, A. P. Russell, and S. Hartman. 2010. A new chasmosaurine ceratopsid from the Judith River Formation, Montana. New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington