Vagaceratops
Vagaceratops (meaning "wandering (vagus, Latin) horned face", in reference to its close relationship with Kosmoceratops from Utah) is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period (late Campanian) in what is now Alberta. Its fossils have been recovered from the Upper Dinosaur Park Formation. It is sometimes included in the genus Chasmosaurus as Chasmosaurus irvinensis instead of being recognized as its own genus.
| Vagaceratops Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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| Cast of the holotype skull, Canadian Museum of Nature | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | †Ceratopsia |
| Family: | †Ceratopsidae |
| Subfamily: | †Chasmosaurinae |
| Genus: | †Vagaceratops Sampson et al., 2010 |
| Species: | †V. irvinensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Vagaceratops irvinensis (Holmes et al., 2001 [originally Chasmosaurus]) | |
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