Yehuecauhceratops

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DV-1004Aguja Fm., Mexico

Yehuecauhceratops

DV-1004 · type species Yehuecauhceratops mudei

Lived
84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
Found in
Mexico
Named by
Rivera-Sylva et al. 2017

Field notes

About Yehuecauhceratops

Yehuecauhceratops 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 Yehuecauhceratops, from Mexico. Its fossils come from the Aguja Formation. It was named by Rivera-Sylva et al. in 2017.

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: H. E. Rivera-Sylva, E. Frey, and W. Stinnesbeckc, J. R. Guzmán-Gutiérrez, A. H. González-González. 2017. Mexican ceratopsids: considerations on their diversity and biogeography. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 75:66-73