Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Notoceratops
"southern horned face"
Type species Notoceratops bonarelli
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Tapia 1919
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Notoceratops
What it was like
Notoceratops is known only from a toothless lower jaw, which has since been lost. It was first thought to be a horned dinosaur, but the jaw is too incomplete to be sure, and many scientists treat the name as doubtful.
Its world
It lived at the end of the Late Cretaceous in what is now Argentina. Its fossil comes from the Lago Colhué Huapi Formation, where the titanosaurs Aeolosaurus and Argyrosaurus also lived.
How it was found
Tapia named Notoceratops in 1919. The type species is Notoceratops bonarelli.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsia
Sources: WikidataNamed in: A. Tapia. 1919. Una mandibula de Dinosaurioa procedente de Patagonia [A dinosaur mandible from Patagonia]. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales 4:369-370