Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Helioceratops
"sun horned face"
- Lived
- 121 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Leptoceratopsidae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Jin et al. 2009
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
110 million years ago
Field notes
About Helioceratops
What it was like
Helioceratops was a small horned dinosaur known from its jaws. It belonged to the leptoceratopsids, simple horned dinosaurs with short frills.
Its world
It lived in the Cretaceous, in what is now China. It comes from the Quantou Formation.
How it was found
Jin and colleagues named Helioceratops in 2009.
Close relatives
Other members of Leptoceratopsidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: L. Jin, J. Chen, and S. Zan, P. Godefroit. 2009. A new basal neoceratopsian dinosaur from the middle Cretaceous of Jilin Province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 83(2):200-206