Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Xenoceratops
"alien horned face"
Type species Xenoceratops foremostensis
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- Canada
- Named by
- Ryan et al. 2012
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Xenoceratops
What it was like
Xenoceratops was a horned plant eater from the centrosaurine group, relatives of Styracosaurus and Centrosaurus. It is known from pieces of the skull, which show large spikes along the top of its frill.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Alberta, Canada. Its bones come from the Foremost Formation, one of the older dinosaur-bearing rock layers in the province. The tyrannosaur Thanatotheristes lived in the same region.
How it was found
Ryan and colleagues named it in 2012 from one find. The type species is Xenoceratops foremostensis, after the formation where it was found.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: M. J. Ryan, D. C. Evans, and K. M. Shepherd. 2012. A new ceratopsid from the Foremost Formation (middle Campanian) of Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 49:1251-1262