Machairoceratops

Machairoceratops
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Reconstructed skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Family: Ceratopsidae
Subfamily: Centrosaurinae
Genus: Machairoceratops
Lund et al., 2016
Type species
Machairoceratops cronusi
Lund et al., 2016

Machairoceratops (meaning "bent sword horned face"), previously known as the "Wahweap centrosaurine B", is an extinct genus of centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Wahweap Formation (late Campanian stage) of Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, southern Utah, United States.[1]

  1. ^ Eric K. Lund; Patrick M. O’Connor; Mark A. Loewen; Zubair A. Jinnah (2016). "A New Centrosaurine Ceratopsid, Machairoceratops cronusi gen et sp. nov., from the Upper Sand Member of the Wahweap Formation (Middle Campanian), Southern Utah". PLOS ONE. 11 (5): e0154403. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1154403L. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0154403. PMC 4871575. PMID 27192148.

Machairoceratops

Dodaje.pl - Ogłoszenia lokalne