Judiceratops tigris was named by Longrich (2013). Its type specimen is YPM VPPU 022404, a partial skull (Partial skull including postorbital horns, parts of the frontals, prefrontals, and lacrimals, parts of right squamosal and parietals, occipital condyle and part), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP V83125, Skull Crest, which is in a Campanian terrestrial mudstone/sandstone in the Judith River Formation of Montana. It is the type species of Judiceratops.