Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Bisticeratops
"Bisti horned face"
Type species Bisticeratops froeseorum
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Dalman et al. 2022
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Bisticeratops
What it was like
Bisticeratops was a horned plant eater from the chasmosaurine group, relatives of Pentaceratops. It is known from a nearly complete skull with a long frill. The skull shows bite marks, perhaps from a tyrannosaur.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now New Mexico. Its bones come from the Kirtland Formation, a land of rivers and swamps shared with the tyrannosaur Bistahieversor, the crested Parasaurolophus and the horned Pentaceratops.
How it was found
Dalman and colleagues named it in 2022. The type species is Bisticeratops froeseorum. Its name comes from the badlands where it was found.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: S. G. Dalman, S. E. Jasinski, and S. G. Lucas. 2022. A new chasmosaurine ceratopsid from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Farmington Member of the Kirtland Formation, New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 90:127-153