Zuniceratops
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Zuniceratops
DV-0429 · type species Zuniceratops christopheri
- Lived
- 94 to 90 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Wolfe and Kirkland 1998
Field notes
About Zuniceratops
Zuniceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 94 to 90 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 3 finds of Zuniceratops, from New Mexico. Its fossils come from the Moreno Hill Formation. It was named by Wolfe and Kirkland in 1998.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
90 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsoidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: D. G. Wolfe and J. I. Kirkland. 1998. Zuniceratops christopheri n. gen. & n. sp., a ceratopsian dinosaur from the Moreno Hill Formation (Cretaceous, Turonian) of west-central New Mexico. S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland, and J. W. Estep (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:307-317