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Sinoceratops zhuchengensis seyenoh-SƐRUHTOPS

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You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Sinoceratops 5 m (16.4 ft) long
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Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (77.3–73.5 Mya)
Place
North America · Asia · China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ceratopsidae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Marginocephalia

Sinoceratops is an extinct genus of ceratopsian dinosaur that lived from 77.3 to 73.5 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period in what is now Shandong province in China. It was named in 2010 by Xu Xing et al. for three skulls from Zhucheng, China. The name of the type species Sinoceratops zhuchengensis means “Chinese horned face from Zhucheng”, after the location of its discovery. Sinoceratops was a medium-sized, averagely-built, ground-dwelling, quadrupedal herbivore. It could grow up to an estimated 5 m in length and weigh up to 2 tonne.

It was the first ceratopsid dinosaur discovered in China, and the only ceratopsid known from Asia. All other centrosaurines and all chasmosaurines are known from fossils discovered in North America.

What we know

  • Named by Xu et al., 2010.
  • Body length estimated at about 5 m.
  • Fossils found in North America and Asia.