Terminocavus

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DV-1119Kirtland Fm., New Mexico

Terminocavus

DV-1119 · type species Terminocavus sealeyi

Lived
84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
Found in
United States
Named by
Fowler and Freedman Fowler 2020

Field notes

About Terminocavus

Terminocavus 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 Terminocavus, from New Mexico. Its fossils come from the Kirtland Formation. It was named by Fowler and Freedman Fowler in 2020.

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: D. W. Fowler and E. A. Freedman Fowler. 2020. Transitional evolutionary forms in chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaurs: evidence from the Campanian of New Mexico. PeerJ 8:e9251:1-49