Mosaiceratops
Field photograph to come
Mosaiceratops
DV-0927 · type species Mosaiceratops azumai
- Lived
- 94 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Zheng et al. 2015
Field notes
About Mosaiceratops
Mosaiceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 94 to 72 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Mosaiceratops, from China. Its fossils come from the Xiaguan Formation. It was named by Zheng et al. in 2015.
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 Neoceratopsia.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: W. Zheng, X. Jin, and X. Xu. 2015. A psittacosaurid-like basal neoceratopsian from the Upper Cretaceous of central China and its implications for basal ceratopsian evolution. Scientific Reports 5:14190:1-9