Name:
Sierraceratops
(Sierra horned face).
Phonetic: Se-er-rah-seh-rah-tops.
Named By: S. G. Dalman, S. G. Lucas, S.
E Jasinski & N. R. Longrich - 2022.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ceratopsia, Ceratopsidae, Chasmosaurinae.
Species: S. turneri (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Skull under 2 meters long. Full body
length estimated at about 4.5 meters long.
Known locations: USA, New Mexico - Hall Lake
Formation.
Time period: Campanian-Maastrichtian of the
Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and post
cranial skeleton.
Sierraceratops
is a genus of ceratopsian
dinosaur that lived in North America during
the late Cretaceous. Sierraceratops is also
considered to have been a
chasmosaurine ceratopsian, the kind noted for having proportionately
larger neck frills than other ceratopsian types.
Further reading
- The ceratopsian Torosaurus from the Upper
Cretaceous McRae
Formation, Sierra County, New Mexico, by S. G. Lucas, G.
H. Mark & J. W. Estep. In, New Mexico Geological
Society Guidebook, 49th Field Conference, Las Cruces County Il.
p. 223-227. - 1998.
- Sierraceratops turneri, a new chasmosaurine
ceratopsid from the
Hall Lake Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of south-central New
Mexico. - Cretaceous Research. 130: Article 105034. - S.
G. Dalman, S. G. Lucas, S. E Jasinski & N. R.
Longrich - 2022.