Coahuilaceratops

Coahuilaceratops
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian)
~71.5–70.5 Ma
Skull of Coahuilaceratops
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Neornithischia
Clade: Ceratopsia
Family: Ceratopsidae
Subfamily: Chasmosaurinae
Genus: Coahuilaceratops
Loewen et al., 2010
Species:
C. magnacuerna
Binomial name
Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna
Loewen et al., 2010

Coahuilaceratops (meaning "horned face from Coahuila") is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the early Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 71.5 to 70.5 million years ago in what is now northern Mexico.[1] It contains a single species, Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna.[2]

  1. ^ Barrera Guevara, D.; Espinosa Chávez, B.; Serrano Brañas, C. I.; de León Dávila, C.; Posada Martinez, D.; Freedman Fowler, E.; Fowler, D. (2024). "Stratigraphic Reassessment of the Mexican Chasmosaurine Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna as the First Diagnostic Dinosaur Remains from the Cerro Huerta Formation (Lower Maastrichtian) Supporting the Southern Origin of the Triceratopsini". Diversity. 16 (7): 390. doi:10.3390/d16070390.
  2. ^ Loewen, M. A.; Sampson, S. D.; Lund, E. K.; Farke, A. A.; Aguillón-Martínez, M. C.; de Leon, C. A.; Rodríguez de la Rosa, R. A.; Getty, M. A.; Eberth, D. A. (2010). "Horned Dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico". In Ryan, M. J.; Chinnery-Allgeier, B. J.; Eberth, D. A. (eds.). New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press. pp. 99–116. ISBN 978-0253353580.