Sierraceratops
Field photograph to come
Sierraceratops
DV-1192 · type species Sierraceratops turneri
- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Dalman et al. 2022
Field notes
About Sierraceratops
Sierraceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Ceratopsidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Sierraceratops, from New Mexico. Its fossils come from the Hall Lake Formation. It was named by Dalman et al. in 2022.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
75 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, N. R. Longrich. 2022. Sierraceratops turneri, a new chasmosaurine ceratopsid from the Hall Lake Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of south-central New Mexico. Cretaceous Research 130:105034