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NEDOCERATOPS
(nee-doh-seh-rah-tops)
meaning: "Insufficient horned face"
Nedoceratops
Named By: A. S. Ukrainsky in 2007
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 67 Ma
Location: USA, Wyoming - Lance Formation
Size: Uncertain due to lack of postcranial remains, but skull is 1.8 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Skull
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ceratopsia | Ceratopsidae | Ceratopsinae |
Also known as: | Diceratops | Diceratus | Triceratops hatcheri |
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Nedoceratops (meaning "insufficient horned face") is a controversial genus of ceratopsid herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period Lance Formation of North America. It is known only from a single skull discovered in Wyoming. Its status is the subject of ongoing debate among paleontologists: some authors consider Nedoceratops a valid, distinct taxon, while others consider it to represent an ontogenetic (growth) stage of Triceratops and thus a synonym.

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