Partial holotype skull, Texas Science & Natural History Museum
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
†Ornithischia
Clade:
†Ceratopsia
Family:
†Ceratopsidae
Subfamily:
†Chasmosaurinae
Genus:
†Agujaceratops Lucas, Sullivan & Hunt, 2006
Type species
†Agujaceratops mariscalensis
(Lehman, 1989)
Species
A. mariscalensis (Lehman, 1989)
A. mavericus Lehman et al., 2016
Synonyms
Chasmosaurus mariscalensis Lehman, 1989
Agujaceratops (meaning "horned face from Aguja") is a genus of horned dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of west Texas. It is a chasmosaurine (long-frilled) ceratopsian. Two species are known, Agujaceratops mariscalensis, and A. mavericus.
own genus. Agujaceratops was named by Spencer G. Lucas, Robert M. Sullivan and Adrian Hunt in 2006, and the type species is Agujaceratops mariscalensis...
certain species based on partial or immature remains (Bravoceratops and Agujaceratops) were excluded, as in the Mallon et al. study above. While this new...
Chasmosaurus mariscalensis in 1989 from Texas, which has now been renamed Agujaceratops. The most recently described species is Chasmosaurus irvinensis named...
frontoparietal dome. It was found in the same WPA quarries that produced Agujaceratops, and may have been excavated and tossed aside, being mistaken for a...
composition and significance of high–diversity, mixed bonebeds containing Agujaceratops mariscalensis and other dinosaurs, Aguja Formation (Upper Cretaceous)...
centrosaurine with a body length of 3 metres (9.8 ft), making it smaller than Agujaceratops and Coahuilaceratops, the other two ceratopsids in its environment;...
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