Yamaceratops
Name:
Yamaceratops
(Yama horned face).
Phonetic: Yah-mah-seh-rah-tops.
Named By: Peter J. Makovicky & Mark A.
Norell - 2006.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ceratopsia.
Species: Y. dorngobiensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: Mongolia.
Time period: Late Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull. Possibly
also a fossilised egg and embryo.
Yamaceratops is a genus of primitive ceratopsian dinosaur that when first described was thought to have lived in the early Cretaceous, though later study has now revealed Yamaceratops to have lived during the late Cretaceous. Yamaceratops is named after Yama, a Tibetan Buddhist deity combined ‘ceratops' which means horned face.
Further reading
- Yamaceratops dorngobiensis, a new primitive
ceratopsian
(Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. -
American Museum Novitates 3530: 1–42. - Peter J.
Makovicky & Mark A. Norell - 2006.
- Digital preparation of a probable neoceratopsian preserved within
an egg, with comments on microstructural anatomy of ornithischian
eggshells. - Naturwissenschaften 95 (6): 493–500 -
A. M. Balanoff, M. A. Norell, G. Grellet-Tinner
&
M. R. Lewin - 2008.
- Assignment of Yamaceratops dorngobiensis and
associated redbeds at
Shine Us Khudag (eastern Gobi, Dorngobi Province, Mongolia) to
the restricted Javkhlant Formation (Upper Cretaceous). -
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 (1): 295–302. -
David A. Eberth, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Yuong-Nam Lee, Octávio
Mateus, François Therrien, Darla K. Zelenitsky & Mark
A.
Norell - 2009.
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