Menefeeceratops
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Menefeeceratops
DV-1147 · type species Menefeeceratops sealeyi
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Dalman et al. 2021
Field notes
About Menefeeceratops
Menefeeceratops 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 Menefeeceratops, from New Mexico. Its fossils come from the Menefee Formation. It was named by Dalman et al. in 2021.
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. G. Dalman, S. G. Lucas, and S. E. Jasinski, A. J. Lichtig, P. Dodson. 2021. The oldest centrosaurine: a new ceratopsid dinosaur (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae) from the Allison Member of the Menefee Formation (Upper Cretaceous, early Campanian), northwestern New Mexico, USA. Paläontologische Zeitschrift