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ZUNICERATOPS
(zoo-nee-ceh-ra-tops)
meaning: "Zuni-horned face"
Zuniceratops
Named By: Douglas G. Wolfe and James I. Kirkland in 1998
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 91 Ma
Location: U.S.A., New Mexico, Moreno Hill Formation
Size: 3.5 meters long
Diet: unavailable
Fossil(s): Bones from several animals, One Skull
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Genasauria | Cerapoda | Marginocephalia | Ceratopia | Ceratopsomorpha |
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Zuniceratops ('Zuni-horned face') was a ceratopsian dinosaur from the mid Turonian of the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now New Mexico, United States. It lived about 10 million years earlier than the more familiar horned Ceratopsidae and provides an important window on their ancestry.

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