Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Crittendenceratops
"Fort Crittenden horned face"
Type species Crittendenceratops krzyzanowskii
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Dalman et al. 2018
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Crittendenceratops
What it was like
Crittendenceratops was a small horned dinosaur known from part of a skull and frill. Its frill had curved hooks pointing inward.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Arizona, in the United States. Its bones come from the Fort Crittenden Formation.
How it was found
Dalman and colleagues named Crittendenceratops in 2018, from two finds. It was the first dinosaur named from this formation.
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: S. G. Dalman, J.-P. M. Hodnett, and A. J. Lichtig, S. G. Lucas. 2018. 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