Navajoceratops sullivani Navajoceratops
"Navajo horned face"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Navajoceratops 6 m (19.7 ft) long
4 people holding hands
- Length
- 6 m (19.7 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (75–73.4 Mya)
- Place
- North America · Mexico · Montana, USA · Utah, USA
- Food
- Herbivore
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.