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 | |
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.