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Nedoceratops
Sign in to saveNedoceratops (meaning "insufficient horned face") is a controversial genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period Lance Formation of North America. It is known only from a single skull discovered in Wyoming. Its status is the subject of ongoing debate among paleontologists: some authors consider Nedoceratops a valid, distinct taxon, while others consider it to be an unusual specimen of Triceratops.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Chasmosaurinae
- Image
- Nedoceratops BW.jpg
- Length
- 7.0
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- main food source
- herbivore
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Nedoceratops
- Commons category
- Nedoceratops
- start time
- 67000000-0
- end time
- 66000000-0
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
- location of discovery
- United States
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- History of discovery
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Nedoceratops (meaning "insufficient horned face") is a controversial genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period Lance Formation of North America. It is known only from a single skull discovered in Wyoming. Its status is the subject of ongoing debate among paleontologists: some authors consider Nedoceratops a valid, distinct taxon, while others consider it to be an unusual specimen of Triceratops.
==History of discovery== thumb|left|upright|1905 diagram of the skull The nearly complete skull USNM 2412, the holotype specimen of Nedoceratops hatcheri, was found in eastern Wyoming in 1891, in Niobrara County near Lightning Creek.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nedoceratops” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.