Zuniceratops
Zuniceratops ('Zuni-horned face') is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaurs from the mid Turonian of the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now New Mexico, United States. The genus itself is composed of one known species, Zuniceratops christopheri. It lived about 10 million years earlier than the more familiar horned Ceratopsidae and provides an important window on their ancestry.
| Zuniceratops Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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| Reconstructed skeleton | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | †Ceratopsia |
| Parvorder: | †Coronosauria |
| Superfamily: | †Ceratopsoidea |
| Genus: | †Zuniceratops Wolfe & Kirkland, 1998 |
| Species: | †Z. christopheri |
| Binomial name | |
| †Zuniceratops christopheri Wolfe & Kirkland, 1998 | |
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