Crittendenceratops
Name:
Crittendenceratops
(Fort Crittenden Formation horned face).
Phonetic: Krit-ten--en-seh-rah-tops.
Named By: S. G. Dalman, J.-P. M. Hodnett,
A. J. Lichtig & S. G. Lucas - 2018.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ceratopsidae, Centrosaurinae, Nasutoceratopsini.
Species: C. krzyzanowskii
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: USA, Arizona - Fort
Crittenden Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull.
Crittendenceratops
is a genus of ceratopsian
dinosaur that lived in Western portion of
North America during the late Cretaceous. While many fossils of
various types of animals have been discovered in the Fort Crittenden
Formation of Arizona, Crittendenceratops is the
first distinct genus
to be named from this formation.
Further reading
- A new ceratopsid dinosaur (Centrosaurinae: Nasutoceratopsini)
from the Fort Crittenden Formation, Upper Cretaceous (Campanian)
of Arizona. - New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Bulletin 79:141-164. - S. G. Dalman, J.-P. M. Hodnett,
A. J. Lichtig & S. G. Lucas - 2018.
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