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Bisticeratops

Bisticeratops
Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous, late Campanian,
Holotype skull in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Family: Ceratopsidae
Subfamily: Chasmosaurinae
Genus: Bisticeratops
Dalman et al., 2022
Species:
B. froeseorum
Binomial name
Bisticeratops froeseorum
Dalman et al., 2022

Bisticeratops (meaning "Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness horned face") is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian from outcrops of the Campanian age Kirtland Formation found in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness in northwestern New Mexico, United States. The type and only species is B. froeseorum, known from a nearly complete skull.[1]

  1. ^ Dalman SG, Jasinski SE, Lucas SG (2022). "A new chasmosaurine ceratopsid from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Farmington Member of the Kirtland Formation, New Mexico". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 90: 127–153.

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