Spiclypeus

DV-0962 · type species Spiclypeus shipporum

Lived: 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
Found in: United States
Named by: Mallon et al. 2016

Field notes

About Spiclypeus

Spiclypeus 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 Spiclypeus, from Montana. Its fossils come from the Judith River Formation. It was named by Mallon et al. in 2016.

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: J. C. Mallon, C. J. Ott, and P. L. Larson, E. M. Iuliano, D. C. Evans. 2016. Spiclypeus shipporum gen. et sp. nov., a boldly audacious new chasmosaurine ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Judith River Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Campanian) of Montana, USA. PLoS ONE 11(5):e0154218:1-40