Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Medusaceratops
"Medusa horned face"
Type species Medusaceratops lokii
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Ryan et al. 2010
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Medusaceratops
What it was like
Medusaceratops was a horned dinosaur with large, curved hooks along the edge of its frill, which reminded its namers of the snake hair of a monster from Greek myth. It had long brow horns and was a close relative of Albertaceratops.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Montana. It comes from the Judith River Formation, where it shared the land with the tyrannosaurs Daspletosaurus and Gorgosaurus and the duckbill Corythosaurus.
How it was found
Ryan and colleagues named Medusaceratops in 2010. The type species is Medusaceratops lokii. Its frill bones were found in a bone bed with many animals.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: M. J. Ryan, A. P. Russell, and S. Hartman. 2010. A new chasmosaurine ceratopsid from the Judith River Formation, Montana. New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington