Avaceratops is a genus of small herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaurs which lived during the late Campanian during the Late Cretaceous Period in what are now the Northwest United States. Most fossils come from the Judith River Formation.
morphology, and lack of intermediate forms; thus, Avaceratops is only represented by the type specimen. Avaceratops was originally by Dodson considered to have...
to Centrosaurus, containing Nasutoceratops, Avaceratops, MOR 692 (previously treated as an adult Avaceratops), CMN 8804, and another undescribed ceratopsian...
Other members of this clade of early branching centrosaurines include Avaceratops and Nasutoceratops, both also hailing from the Campanian of the United...
same clade as Avaceratops and Nasutoceratops (a clade subsequently named Nasutoceratopsini). Indeed, Yehuecauhceratops and Avaceratops share a number...
centrosaurine dinosaur had been named since Pachyrhinosaurus in 1950, namely Avaceratops in 1986. Achelousaurus thus holds particular importance for being one...
however are more likely centrosaurine; they have also been referred to Avaceratops. In 1906 Richard Swann Lull noted that the name Ceratops had been preoccupied...
Other members of the Centrosaurinae subfamily include Pachyrhinosaurus, Avaceratops, Einiosaurus, Albertaceratops, and Achelousaurus. The cladogram presented...
(Einiosaurus, Wendiceratops and Pachyrostra), and a clade formed by Avaceratops and Nasutoceratops being resolved. The Bayesian analysis yielded a fully...
Centrosaurus (from which the group takes its name), Pachyrhinosaurus, Avaceratops, Einiosaurus, Albertaceratops, Achelousaurus, Brachyceratops, and Monoclonius...
Crittendenceratops was assigned to the Nasutoceratopsini (which also includes Avaceratops, Nasutoceratops, and Yehuecauhceratops), a tribe of the ceratopsid subfamily...
Formation, Medusaceratops can be directly distinguished from centrosaurine Avaceratops, and chasmosaurines Judiceratops and Spiclypeus based on its unique frill...
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