Notoceratops

Notoceratops
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Mandible.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
Ornithischia
Suborder:
?Marginocephalia
Infraorder:
?Ceratopsia
Genus:
Notoceratops

Tapia, 1918
Species
  • Notoceratops bonarellii, Tapia, 1918
  • Notoceratops huananensis, Friets, 2017

Notoceratops (meaning "southern horned face") was a ceratopsian dinosaur known only from a late Cretaceous jaw bone. Notoceratops walked on four sturdy legs, had a large head, a bulky body, a parrot-like beak, cheek teeth, and a small frill on its head.

Discovery

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Notoceratops was named by Augusto Tapia in 1918 from a partial lower jaw found in Chubut, Argentina. This original Notoceratops bonarelli is missing and there is some doubt as to whether or not this fossil was actually a ceratopsian.