Bisticeratops

Bisticeratops (meaning "Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness horned face") is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian from outcrops of the Campanian age Kirtland Formation found in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness in northwestern New Mexico, United States. The type and only species is B. froeseorum, known from a nearly complete skull.

Bisticeratops
Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous, late Campanian,
Holotype skull in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Suborder: Ceratopsia
Family: Ceratopsidae
Subfamily: Chasmosaurinae
Genus: Bisticeratops
Dalman et al., 2022
Species:
B. froeseorum
Binomial name
Bisticeratops froeseorum
Dalman et al., 2022
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