Yamaceratops
Field photograph to come
Yamaceratops
DV-0613 · type species Yamaceratops dorngobiensis
- Lived
- 86 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Makovicky and Norell 2006
Field notes
About Yamaceratops
Yamaceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 72 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Yamaceratops, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Javkhlant Formation. It was named by Makovicky and Norell in 2006.
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: P. J. Makovicky and M. A. Norell. 2006. Yamaceratops dorngobiensis, a new primitive ceratopsian (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 3530:1-42