Sinoceratops/ˌsaɪnoʊˈsɛrətɒps/ is an extinct genus of ceratopsian dinosaur that lived approximately 73 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period in what is now Shandong province in China. It was named in 2010 by Xu Xing et al. for three skulls from Zhucheng, China. The name of its type species Sinoceratops zhuchengensis means "Chinese horned face from Zhucheng", after the location of its discovery.
Sinoceratops was a medium-sized, averagely-built, ground-dwelling, quadrupedal herbivore. It could grow up to an estimated 5 metres (16 ft) in length and weigh up to 2 tonnes (2.0 long tons; 2.2 short tons). It was the first ceratopsid dinosaur discovered in China, and the only ceratopsid known from Asia. All other centrosaurines, and all chasmosaurines, are known from fossils discovered in North America, except for possibly Turanoceratops. Sinoceratops is also significant because it is one of the largest known centrosaurines, and is much larger than any other known basal members of this group.
Sinoceratops was discovered in the Hongtuya Formation, which was deposited during the late Cretaceous. It lived alongside leptoceratopsids, saurolophines, and tyrannosaurines. The most common animal in the formation was Shantungosaurus, to which most of the material has been assigned. The animals living alongside Sinoceratops and Shantungosaurus were Zhuchengceratops, Zhuchengtitan, and Zhuchengtyrannus.
its type species Sinoceratops zhuchengensis means "Chinese horned face from Zhucheng", after the location of its discovery. Sinoceratops was a medium-sized...
the 2010 discovery of Sinoceratops in the Shandong Province of China. However, some authors question the placement of Sinoceratops within Centrosaurinae...
Centrosaurus. Apart from Einiosaurus and Rubeosaurus, this included Sinoceratops and Xenoceratops, according to a 2013 study. Cladistic analyses develop...
cronusi. Wendiceratops pinhornensis, Xenoceratops foremostensis, and Sinoceratops zhuchengensis were resolved as members of the Pachyrhinosaurini and Einiosaurus...
Alaska to Mexico. The only named ceratopsid outside of Laramidia is Sinoceratops, a centrosaurine from the late Campanian of China. An indeterminate tooth...
Camp Cretaceous. Sino-Spino - This dinosaur was made from the DNA of a Sinoceratops and a Spinosaurus. It debuted in Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous where...
instructions and ultimately causes a stampede of dinosaurs. After getting a Sinoceratops to help rescue Darius and Brooklynn from a patch of sinking mud, the...
from the quarry. Apart from the tyrannosaurid material, specimens of Sinoceratops, hadrosaurids (probably Shantungosaurus) and ankylosaurs such as Sinankylosaurus...
horn, and the lack of a vertical spike on the rear frill. The Chinese Sinoceratops has similar epiparietals, but in addition a central midline epiparietal...
III, through brief appearances. Allosaurus, Baryonyx, Carnotaurus, and Sinoceratops are introduced in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Baryonyx and Carnotaurus...
cared for by Mae Turner; Angel and Rebel, a pair of young Spinoceratops (Sinoceratops-Spinosaurus hybrids), and Firecracker, a baby Brachiosaurus. The series...
case of the centrosaurines, they had thrived in Asia with genera like Sinoceratops. While albertosaurine remains have been found in the Hell Creek Formation...
chasmosaurine ceratopsid related to Bravoceratops and Coahuilaceratops. †Sinoceratops †Sinoceratops zhuchengensis 72–70 Ma Xingezhuang Formation, Shandong, China...
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