Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Ischioceratops
"hip horned face"
Type species Ischioceratops zhuchengensis
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Leptoceratopsidae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- He et al. 2015
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Ischioceratops
What it was like
Ischioceratops was a small leptoceratopsid, a simple horned dinosaur. It is known from a partial skeleton. One of its hip bones had an unusual oval opening, which gave it its name.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now China. It comes from the Hongtuya Formation, where it shared the land with the giant duckbill Shantungosaurus, the tyrannosaur Zhuchengtyrannus and the horned Sinoceratops.
How it was found
He and colleagues named Ischioceratops in 2015. The type species is Ischioceratops zhuchengensis.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Leptoceratopsidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: Y. He, P. J. Makovicky, and K. Wang, S. Chen, C. Sullivan, F. Han, X. Xu. 2015. A new leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) with a unique ischium from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0144148