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Mojoceratops
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 76.5–75 MaSkull of cf. Mojoceratops (specimen AMNH 5401), American Museum of Natural History Scientific classification Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Superorder: Dinosauria Order: †Ornithischia Suborder: †Ceratopsia Family: †Ceratopsidae Subfamily: †Chasmosaurinae Genus: †Mojoceratops
Longrich, 2010Species: †M. perifania Binomial name Mojoceratops perifania
Longrich, 2010Synonyms Eoceratops canadensis? Lambe, 1915
Chasmosaurus kaiseni? Brown, 1933Mojoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Western Canada. It is known from the holotype TMP 1983.25.1, a partial skull including the parietal and from the paratypes TMP 1999.55.292, isolated lateral ramus of right parietal and NMC 8803, central bar and lateral rami of parietals. AMNH 5656, AMNH 5401, NMC 1254, NMC 34832 and TMP 1979.11.147 were also referred to the genus. All specimens of Mojoceratops were collected from the Dinosaur Park Formation (late Campanian, 76.5–75 ma) of the Belly River Group of Alberta and Saskatchewan, western Canada. Mojoceratops was first named by Nicholas R. Longrich in 2010 and the type species is Mojoceratops perifania. It is based on fossils long thought to have belonged to Chasmosaurus.[1]
References
- ^ Nicholas R. Longrich (2010). "Mojoceratops perifania, A New Chasmosaurine Ceratopsid from the Late Campanian of Western Canada". Journal of Paleontology 84 (4): 681–694. doi:10.1666/09-114.1.
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