Ischioceratops

Name: Ischioceratops.
Phonetic: Is-ke-o-seh-rah-tops.
Named By: Yiming He,‭ ‬Peter J.‭ ‬Makovicky,‭ ‬Kebai Wang,‭ ‬Chen Shuqing,‭ ‬Corwin Sullivan,‭ ‬Fenglu Han,‭ ‬Xing XuMichael J.‭ ‬Ryan,‭ ‬David C.‭ ‬Evans,‭ ‬Philip J.‭ ‬Currie,‭ ‬Caleb M.‭ ‬Brown‭ & ‬Don Brinkman‭ ‬-‭ ‬2015.
Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Reptilia,‭ ‬Dinosauria,‭ ‬Ornithischia,‭ ‬Ceratopsia,‭ ‬Leptoceratopsidae.
Species: I.‭ ‬zhuchengensis‭ (‬type‭)‬.
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: China,‭ ‬Shandong Province.
Time period: Late Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Hip as well as some sacral‭ (‬hip‭) ‬and anterior caudal‭ (‬tail‭) ‬vertebra ae well as femur,‭ ‬fibula and tibia‭ (‬rear leg bones‭)‬.

       Ischioceratops is a genus of small ceratopsian dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the late Cretaceous.‭ ‬Ischioceratops is a rare example of a ceratopsian dinosaur being named without any skull fossils.‭ ‬This has been possible in this case because the hip structure of Ischioceratops is quite unlike any other ceratopsian genus that we currently know about.‭ ‬Although the exact size is uncertain at the time of writing,‭ ‬the holotype individual of Ischioceratops would have been a small animal,‭ ‬no more than a couple of meters long at most.

Further reading
-‭ ‬A New Leptoceratopsid‭ (‬Ornithischia,‭ ‬Ceratopsia‭) ‬with a Unique ischium from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong Province,‭ ‬China.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Yiming He,‭ ‬Peter J.‭ ‬Makovicky,‭ ‬Kebai Wang,‭ ‬Chen Shuqing,‭ ‬Corwin Sullivan,‭ ‬Fenglu Han,‭ ‬Xing XuMichael J.‭ ‬Ryan,‭ ‬David C.‭ ‬Evans,‭ ‬Philip J.‭ ‬Currie,‭ ‬Caleb M.‭ ‬Brown‭ & ‬Don Brinkman‭ ‬-‭ ‬2015.



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