Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Zhuchengceratops
Type species Zhuchengceratops inexpectus
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Leptoceratopsidae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Xu et al. 2010
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Zhuchengceratops
What it was like
Zhuchengceratops was a small horned dinosaur with a deep, strong lower jaw. It belonged to the leptoceratopsids, simple horned dinosaurs with short frills and no real horns.
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
Xu and colleagues named Zhuchengceratops in 2010. The type species is Zhuchengceratops inexpectus, meaning unexpected, since leptoceratopsids were thought to be rare in Asia at the time.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Leptoceratopsidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: X. Xu, K. Wang, and X. Zhao, C. Sullivan, S. Chen. 2010. A new leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China and its implications for neoceratopsian evolution. PLoS One 5(11/e13835):1-14