Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Turonian – Coniacian) 90.9–88.6 Ma
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Reconstructed skeleton
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
†Ornithischia
Clade:
†Ceratopsia
Parvorder:
†Coronosauria
Superfamily:
†Ceratopsoidea
Genus:
†Zuniceratops Wolfe & Kirkland, 1998
Species:
†Z. christopheri
Binomial name
†Zuniceratops christopheri
Wolfe & Kirkland, 1998
Zuniceratops ('Zuni-horned face') is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaurs that lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now New Mexico, United States. Only a single species is known, Zuniceratops christopheri.
^Cilliers, Charl D.; Tucker, Ryan T.; Crowley, James L.; Zanno, Lindsay E. (2021). "Age constraint for the Moreno Hill Formation (Zuni Basin) by CA-TIMS and LA-ICP-MS detrital zircon geochronology". PeerJ. 9. e10948. doi:10.7717/peerj.10948. PMC 7953880. PMID 33854833.
Mexico, United States. Only a single species is known, Zuniceratops christopheri. Zuniceratops was discovered in 1996, by eight-year-old Christopher James...
Ceratopsoidea, includes the family Ceratopsidae and closely related animals like Zuniceratops. Ceratopsidae itself includes Triceratops and all the large North American...
before attacking. The injured Zuniceratops is attacked by the pack of dromaeosaurs and is fatally wounded. Another Zuniceratops headbutts the attacking dromaeosaur...
a small dromaeosaurid by Wolfe and Kirkland in their description of Zuniceratops, Suskityrannus was informally referred to as the "Zuni coelurosaur",...
squamosal, a part of the skull crest of the newly discovered ceratopsian Zuniceratops. However, closer examination revealed the true identity of the bone,...
been fruitful for the discovery of several antecedents of Triceratops. Zuniceratops, the earliest-known ceratopsian with brow horns, was described in the...
the blanks. Fresh discoveries in the late 1990s and 2000s, including Zuniceratops, the earliest known ceratopsian with brow horns, and Yinlong, the first-known...
Furthermore, with the re-examinations of Turanoceratops in 2009 and Zuniceratops—two critical ceratopsian taxa regarding the evolutionary history of ceratopsids—in...
teeth per tooth position. Derived traits, relative to the more basal Zuniceratops, are the increase of the number of teeth to two or three and the possession...
which therizinosaurs like Nothronychus and larger ceratopsians such as Zuniceratops lived. During the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, an enormous...
ceratopsian related to the protoceratopsids, but more primitive than the Zuniceratops and the Ceratopsidae. However, more recent research has questioned this...
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