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NOTOCERATOPS
(no-toe-seh-rah-tops)
meaning: "southern horned face"
Notoceratops
Named By: A. Tapia in 1918
Time Period: Late Cretaceous
Location: Argentina, Patagonia
Size: Uncertain due to lack of remains
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial remains
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Marginocephalia | Ceratopsia |
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Notoceratops (meaning "southern horned face") is the name given to a dubious genus of dinosaur based on a toothless dentary (now lost) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (in Argentina), probably dating from the Campanian and about 77 million years old.

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