Medusaceratops
Field photograph to come
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
80 million years ago
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