Archaeoceratops yujingziensis You et al. 2010 (ceratopsian)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Full reference: H.-L. You, K. Tanoue, and P. Dodson. 2010. A new species of Archaeoceratops (Dinosauria: Neoceratopsia) from the Early Cretaceous of the Mazongshan area, northwestern China. New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 59-67

Belongs to Archaeoceratops according to E. M. Morschhauser et al. 2019

See also Han et al. 2015, Morschhauser et al. 2019, Morschhauser et al. 2019, Suarez et al. 2019, Tanoue et al. 2012, Tanoue and Okazaki 2014, You et al. 2012, You et al. 2019 and You et al. 2010

Sister taxon: Archaeoceratops oshimai

Type specimen: CAGS-IG-VD-003, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Archaeoceratops, Yujingzi Basin, which is in an Aptian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Xiagou Formation of China.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Archaeoceratops, Yujingzi Basin

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