Name:
Menefeeceratops
(Menefee horned face).
Phonetic: Man-e-fee-seh-rah-tops.
Named By: Sebastian G. Dalman, Spencer G.
Lucas, Steven E. Jasinski, Asher J. Lichtig & Peter
Dodson - 2021.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauiria,
Ornithischia, Ceratopsia, Ceratopsidae, Centrosaurinae,
Nasutoceratopsini.
Species: M. sealeyi (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Roughly estimated 4 - 4.5 meters body
length.
Known locations: USA, New Mexico - Menefee
Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Fossils
of this dinosaur were first noted and described in 1997, but it was
not until 2021 until a new description portraying them as a
distinct genus was published. Menefeeceratops is
a genus of
ceratopsian
dinosaur that lived in North America during the late
Cretaceous. Menefeeceratops is thought to
represent one of the
oldest known centrosaurine ceratopsians.
Further reading
- A new Late Cretaceous (early Campanian) vertebrate fauna from
the Allison Member, Menefee Formation, San Juan Basin, New
Mexico - T. E. Williamson - 1997.
- The oldest centrosaurine: a new ceratopsid dinosaur (Dinosauria:
Ceratopsidae) from the Allison Member of the Menefee Formation
(Upper Cretaceous, early Campanian), northwestern New Mexico,
USA. - PalZ. 95 (2): 291–335 - Sebastian G.
Dalman, Spencer G. Lucas, Steven E. Jasinski, Asher J.
Lichtig & Peter Dodson - 2021.