Xenoceratops foremostensis
By José Carlos Cortés on @ryuukibart
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Name: Xenoceratops foremostensis
Name Meaning: Foreign Horned Face
First Described: 2012
Described By: Ryan, Evans & Shepherd
Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Neoceratopsia, Coronosauria, Ceratopsoidea, Ceratopsidae, Centrosaurinae
Xenoceratops is a Centrosaurine from the Foremost Formation in Foremost, Alberta, Canada, living about 78.5 to 77.5 million years ago, in the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous. Like other early Centrosaurines, it still has brow horns, though the nose lump is getting more pronounced. It is known from multiple specimens and fragmentary skulls, and though it resembled Diabloceratops in some ways, it was actually more derived than it, and more closely related to Albertaceratops and Wendiceratops, though it was less derived than other Centrosaurine groups. It was probably about 6 meters long, though this is rather uncertain.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoceratops
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