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Mosaiceratops azumai
Taxonomy
Mosaiceratops azumai was named by Zheng et al. (2015). Its type specimen is ZMNH M8856, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is west bank, Tuanhe River, which is in a Turonian/Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Xiaguan Formation of China. It is the type species of Mosaiceratops.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Mosaiceratops azumai Zheng et al. p. 2 fig. 1–2 |
| 2019 | Mosaiceratops azumai Morschhauser et al. p. 135 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Mosaiceratops azumai Zheng et al. 2015
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| W. Zheng et al. 2015 | Small basal neoceratopsian with the following autapomorphies: curved groove anterior to the contact between the premaxilla and maxilla; elongate anterior process of jugal with sub-parallel dor- sal and ventral edges; two tubercles developed in the ventral border infraorbital ramus; and the distal end of the dorsal ilium edge dorsoposteriorly directed. Mosaiceratops also differs from other basal neocera- topsians in the following features: edentulous premaxilla; premaxilla slightly larger than maxilla in lateral view; nasal extended ventral to the external naris; two tubercles close to the ventral border of the infraor- bital ramus of the jugal; an inverted T-shape jugal in lateral view; a T-shape postorbital with slender and elongate jugal and squamosal processes; medial process of squamosal anteromedially directed; anterior process of the squamosal simple, rather than bifid; and basal tubera separated by a deep middle notch. |
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| References: Marsh 1875, Norman and Weishampel 1991 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Turonian to the top of the Middle Campanian or 93.90000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Turonian - Middle Campanian | China (Henan) | Mosaiceratops azumai (type locality: 173373) |