Yehuecauhceratops
Name:
Yehuecauhceratops
(Ancient horned face).
Phonetic: Ye-oo-ek-ow-seh-rah-tops.
Named By: Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva, Eberhard
Frey, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, J. R. José RubénGuzmán-Gutiérrez
& Arturo H.González-González - 2017.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ceratopsidae, Centrosaurinae, Nasutoceratopsini.
Species: Y. mudei (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Holotype roughly about 3 meters long.
Known locations: Mexico - Aguja Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull. Partial post
cranial skeleton.
Yehuecauhceratops
is a genus of ceratopsian
dinosaur that lived in North America during
the late Cretaceous. The holotype individual of Yehuecauhceratops
was
discovered in the Aguja Formation of Mexico, and in life is thought
to have been similar to nasutoceratopsine ceratopsian dinosaur genera
such as Nasutoceratops
and Avaceratops.
Unfortunately because of the
lack of complete fossils for this genus, the only clear identifier
that Yehuecauhceratops is a distinct genus.
Yehuecauhceratops
might have shared the same environment with other ceratopsian dinosaurs
such as the genus Agujaceratops
which is also known from the same
formation. Yehuecauhceratops also possibly
encountered ankylosaurs,
hadrosaurs
and dromaeosaurs.
Further reading
- Mexican ceratopsids: Considerations on their diversity and
evolution. - Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 75:
66–73. - Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva, Eberhard Frey, Wolfgang
Stinnesbeck, J. R. José RubénGuzmán-Gutiérrez & Arturo
H.González-González - 2017.
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