In Depth An often included genus in dinosaur books, Arrhinoceratops is another example of a popular dinosaur known by very little fossil material. In this case Arrhinoceratops has been based upon the description of only a single partially preserved skull. Arrhinoceratops was named because William Parks thought that it lacked a nasal horn, and too … Read more
In Depth Nedoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur that lived in North America in the late Cretaceous. So far only a single skull has been attributed to the genus, but originally this skull was called Diceratops. When this name was found to already be in use however, the name Nedoceratops was given to the … Read more
In Depth Agujaceratops originally started out as being assigned as a species to the genus Chasmosaurus, another and more common Campanian era ceratospian dinosaur. However closer analysis by Lucas, Sullivan and Hunt in 2006 of a partial skull revealed key differences between it and other Chasmosaurus fossils. This led to the material being removed from … Read more
In Depth The material of Vagaceratops was first removed from its block in 2001 when palaontologists identified it as a species of Chasmosaurus, C. irvinensis. Further study in 2010 however revealed it to be different enough to give it its own genus. Normal procedure for this occurrence is to take the specific species name of … Read more
In Depth Described from remains that were recovered from a bone bed, Xenoceratops was labelled by some writers as the ancestor to the world famous Triceratops. In actuality however Xenoceratops is considered to be a member of the centrosaurinae, one of the two main groups of ceratopsian dinosaurs that include the small frilled but large/many … Read more