Ischioceratops zhuchengensis He et al. 2015 (leptoceratopsid)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Leptoceratopsidae

Full reference: Y. He, P. J. Makovicky, K. Wang, S. Chen, C. Sullivan, F. Han, and X. Xu. 2015. A new leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) with a unique ischium from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0144148

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

See also He et al. 2015 and Wang et al. 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ZCDM V0016, a set of postcrania (entire sacrum, a few ossified tendons, both halves of the pelvis, the anteriormost 15 caudal vertebrae in an articulated series, and the right femur, tibia and ). Its type locality is Kugou Quarry, Zhucheng, which is in a Campanian terrestrial sandstone in the Hongtuya Formation of China.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Kugou Quarry, Zhucheng

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