Judiceratops

Judiceratops
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 78–77.5 Ma
Frill
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Neornithischia
Clade: Ceratopsia
Family: Ceratopsidae
Subfamily: Chasmosaurinae
Genus: Judiceratops
Longrich, 2013
Species:
J. tigris
Binomial name
Judiceratops tigris
Longrich, 2013

Judiceratops (/ˌdˈsɛrətɒps/ JOO-dee-SERR-ə-tops; meaning "Judith River horned face") is an extinct horned dinosaur. It lived around 78 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now Montana, United States. Like other horned dinosaurs, Judiceratops was a large, quadrupedal herbivore. It is the oldest known chasmosaurine.[1]

  1. ^ Longrich, N. R. (2013). "Judiceratops tigris, a New Horned Dinosaur from the Middle Campanian Judith River Formation of Montana". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 54: 51–65. doi:10.3374/014.054.0103. S2CID 129801786.