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Homepage > North American Dinosaurs - Zuniceratops christopheri

(zoo-nee-sayr-uh-tops)
"Zuni-horned face'"

Describer Wolfe and Kirkland, 1998
Also Known As --
Type of Species christopheri
Order Ornithischia
SubOrder Marginocephalia
InfraOrder Ceratopsia
Micro-Order --
SuperFamily --
Family --
SubFamily --
Size 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) long
Period Late Cretaceous, 92 million years ago
Fossilsite New Mexico, USA
Diet Herbivore

Zuniceratops lived during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 92 million years ago in what is now New Mexico, USA. Zuniceratops was a small primitive horned dinosaur. It had a large frill and beak like skull, large horns above its eyes. Zuniceratops is the oldest ceratopsian for which brow horns are known. Ceratopsian groups are known from Asia and North America, but so far is not clear on which continent these dinosaurs evolved from.

Zuniceratops christopheri Paleo Gallery
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