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Ceratopsidae

Bisticeratops froeseorum

"Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness horned face"

Generic ceratopsian body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Bisticeratops 6 m (19.7 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ceratopsian body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Bisticeratops
Length
6 m (19.7 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (74 Mya)
Place
United States · Mexico · New Mexico, USA
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ceratopsidae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Marginocephalia Big horned ceratopsians of the Late Cretaceous.

Bisticeratops (meaning “Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness horned face”) is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian from outcrops of the Campanian age Kirtland Formation found in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness in northwestern New Mexico, United States. The type and only species is B. froeseorum, known from a nearly complete skull.

What we know

  • Named by Dalman et al., 2022.
  • Fossils found in United States and Mexico.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Bisticeratops — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.