Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Navajoceratops
"Navajo horned face"
Type species Navajoceratops sullivani
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Fowler and Freedman Fowler 2020
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Navajoceratops
What it was like
Navajoceratops was a horned plant eater from the chasmosaurine group, relatives of Pentaceratops. It is known from a partial skull with a large frill.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now New Mexico. Its bones come from the Kirtland Formation, a land of rivers and swamps shared with the tyrannosaur Bistahieversor, the horned Pentaceratops and the crested Parasaurolophus.
How it was found
Fowler and Freedman Fowler named it in 2020. The type species is Navajoceratops sullivani. It may be a link between Pentaceratops and later horned dinosaurs such as Anchiceratops.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: D. W. Fowler and E. A. Freedman Fowler. 2020. Transitional evolutionary forms in chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaurs: evidence from the Campanian of New Mexico. PeerJ 8:e9251:1-49