Intro Archaeocursor asiaticus, a small-bodied (~1 meter in body length) ornithischian dinosaur based on a nearly complete left femur found in the Ziliujing Formation of Chongqing, China. Archaeocursor asiaticus is the earliest ornithischian yet discovered in Asia. This Discovery is important as it shows the earliest-diverging ornithischian dinosaur in Asia. Size and Body Structure of … Read more
Mosaiceratops: Research Database Neoceratopsia (Ornithischia) · Late Cretaceous (~94–89 MYA) · Asia — China (Henan, Gaogang Formation) Research Note: Mosaiceratops was a neoceratopsian ornithischian from the Late Cretaceous of China — part of the diverse ceratopsian radiation that characterized Cretaceous Asian dinosaur faunas. As a basal neoceratopsian, it provides data on the early evolution … Read more
Gryposaurus: Research Database Saurolophinae (Hadrosauridae) · Late Cretaceous (~83–73 MYA) · North America — Canada, Alberta; USA, Montana (Dinosaur Park, Two Medicine Formations) Research Note: Gryposaurus was a saurolophine hadrosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of western North America, famous for its strongly arched, Roman nose — giving it one of the most distinctive hadrosaurid … Read more