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Ceratopsidae

Nedoceratops

"insufficient horned face"

Generic ceratopsian body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Nedoceratops 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 Nedoceratops
Length
6 m (19.7 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (67–66 Mya)
Place
North America · Wyoming, USA
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ceratopsidae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Marginocephalia Big horned ceratopsians of the Late Cretaceous.
Nedoceratops reconstruction by Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com)
Reconstruction · Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com) (CC-BY)

Nedoceratops (meaning “insufficient horned face”) is a controversial genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period Lance Formation of North America. It is known only from a single skull discovered in Wyoming. Its status is the subject of ongoing debate among paleontologists: some authors consider Nedoceratops a valid, distinct taxon, while others consider it to be an unusual specimen of Triceratops.

What we know

  • Named by (Lull vide Hatcher, 1905)Originally Diceratops, preoccupied by Förster, 1868.
  • Fossils found in North America and Wyoming, USA.

What we guess

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