Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Cerasinops
"cherry face"
Type species Cerasinops hodgskissi
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Leptoceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Chinnery and Horner 2007
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Cerasinops
What it was like
Cerasinops was a small, early horned dinosaur with a short frill and no horns. It walked on two or four legs and had a deep beak and strong jaws.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Montana, in the United States. Its bones come from the Two Medicine Formation, where it shared the land with the horned Achelousaurus, the duck-billed Maiasaura and the tyrannosaur Daspletosaurus.
How it was found
Chinnery and Horner named Cerasinops in 2007. Three finds are known.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Leptoceratopsidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: B. J. Chinnery and J. R. Horner. 2007. A new neoceratopsian dinosaur linking North American and Asian taxa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):625-641