Notoceratops

Notoceratops
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
~77–66 Ma
Holotype mandible
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dracohors
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Genus: Notoceratops
Tapia, 1918
Species:
N. bonarellii
Binomial name
Notoceratops bonarellii
Tapia, 1918
Synonyms
  • Notoceratops bonarelli Tapia, 1918; von Huene, 1929 (sic)
  • Notoceratops Bonarelli Tapia, 1918

Notoceratops (meaning "southern horned face") is a dubious genus of extinct ornithischian dinosaur. The genus was described based on an incomplete, toothless left dentary (now lost) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (in Argentina), probably dating to the Campanian or Maastrichtian. Initially classified as a putative ceratopsian found in the Lago Colhué Huapi Formation, the lost fragmentary holotype precludes confident referral of this taxon within ornithischians, with some researchers suggesting that it belongs to a hadrosaur instead.


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