Machairoceratops Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Reconstructed skull | |
Scientific 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
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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]