#furcatoceratops

[moochingvanze]

my latest paleoarts with Allosaurus, (various: Deinocheirus, Gorgosaurus, Protoceratops and Diplodocus), Furcatoceratops, T.rex (cm9380), Lambeosaurus and another rex

[indragonsaur]

Furcatoceratops elucidans

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the #paleostream! Furcatoceratops, Lende chiweta, Tyrrellbatrachus and Discoptychites going after a Balatonites

[adamworks]

Hi there,

Furcatoceratops elucidans from the late Cretaceous, the new member of the centrosaurine ceratopsian family

[confusedhadrosaur]

Day 2: Furcatoceratops elucidans

[new-dinosaurs]

Furcatoceratops elucidans Ishikawa et al., 2023 (new genus and species)

(Schematic skeletal and select bones of Furcatoceratops elucidans [scale bars = 1 m for the skeletal and 10 cm for individual bones], with preserved bones in white, from Ishikawa et al., 2023)

Meaning of name: Furcatoceratops = forked [in Latin] horned face [in Greek]; elucidans = elucidating [in Latin]

Age: Late Cretaceous (Campanian), between 75.2–76.3 million years ago

Where found: Judith River Formation, Montana, U.S.A.

How much is known: Nearly complete skeleton of one individual.

Notes: Furcatoceratops was a centrosaurine ceratopsian, making it a horned dinosaur more closely related to Styracosaurus and Pachyrhinosaurus than to Triceratops. It appears to have been especially closely related to Nasutoceratops, which lived at around the same time in what is now Utah. Whereas Nasutoceratops had distinctive brow horns that curved out to the sides, however, the brow horns of Furcatoceratops pointed almost straight ahead.

The degree of fusion among the skull bones in the type specimen of Furcatoceratops as well as microscopic examination of its bone structure indicate that it was not fully mature when it died, and may have been around 2–3 years old. However, it was already close in size to some adult individuals of closely related ceratopsians.

Historically, research on ceratopsians has focused heavily on their skulls, with less attention paid to the rest of their skeleton. Given its highly complete preservation, the type specimen of Furcatoceratops will likely be valuable for understanding these neglected portions of ceratopsian anatomy.

Reference: Ishikawa, H., T. Tsuihiji, and M. Manabe. 2023. Furcatoceratops elucidans, a new centrosaurine (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the upper Campanian Judith River Formation, Montana, USA. Cretaceous Research advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105660

[totaldino]

Furcatoceratops

Furcatoceratops is a centrosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur with two slightly curved horns above the eyes and a bony ridge along the nose. It was around 4 m in length, and is known from a nearly complete specimen. Because of this, Furcatoceratops serves as a useful comparative specimen for ceratopsian research.

[proflambeovt]

Paleovember 2023, Furcatoceratops!

Named and described in 2023, Furcatoceratops is a fairly midsized ceratopsian from Late Cretaceous Montana. It's name means 'forked horned face' due to the brow horns pointing inward towards each other (though I've reconstructed them to be a bit more asymmetrical). What I found interesting is that the subadult holotype specimen is currently housed in Japan.