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Ceratopsidae

Navajoceratops sullivani

"Navajo horned face"

Generic ceratopsian body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Navajoceratops 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 Navajoceratops
Length
6 m (19.7 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (75–73.4 Mya)
Place
North America · Mexico · Montana, USA · Utah, USA
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ceratopsidae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Marginocephalia Big horned ceratopsians of the Late Cretaceous.

Navajoceratops (meaning “Navajo horned face”) is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America. The genus contains a single species, N. sullivani, named after Robert M. Sullivan, leader of the expeditions that recovered the holotype. thumb|left|Geological map of the southeast San Juan Basin; A (lower right) is where the holotype was found

The holotype specimen, SMP VP-1500, collected in 2002, consists of a partial skull. It was discovered in the Campanian Hunter Wash Member of the Kirtland Formation, New Mexico. It was informally named in 2016.

What we know

  • Named by Fowler and Freedman Fowler, 2020.
  • Fossils found in North America and Mexico.

What we guess

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