#cerasinops

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Day 22: Cerasinops hodgskissi

A cherry-faced leptoceratopsidae is possibly a small bodied ceratopsian that lived in what is now called Montana.

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Cerasinops hodgskissi

By Jack Wood on @thewoodparable

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Name: Cerasinops hodgskissi

Name Meaning: Cherry Face

First Described: 2007

Described By: Chinnery & Horner

Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Neoceratopsia

Cerasinops is a Ceratopsian from the Two Medicine Formation in Montana, living in the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous, approximately 83 million years ago. It is known from an almost complete skeleton and it is close to being, but not quite, a Leptoceratopsidae, indicating it was probably very closely related to the members of this group, and was a well derived Neoceratopsian. Living in the Two Medicine Formation, it would have lived in a seasonal, semi-arid environment with rainshadow from the highlands and ferns, horsetails, and conifers making up the bulk of the vegetation. It lived alongside other dinosaurs such as Dromaeosaurus, Sauronitholestes, Troodon, Acristavus, and Gryposaurus, in the older time of the formation. 

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Medicine_Formation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerasinops 

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