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Yehuecauhceratops mudei
Taxonomy
Yehuecauhceratops mudei was named by Rivera-Sylva et al. (2017). Its type specimen is CPC 274, a partial skeleton (The holotype consists of a partial skull comprising a nearly complete right squamosal, fragments of a parietal, the left dentary and the right premaxilla, as we), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is La Salada, which is in a Campanian delta plain horizon in the Aguja Formation of Mexico. It is the type species of Yehuecauhceratops.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2017 | Yehuecauhceratops mudei Rivera-Sylva et al. |
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†Yehuecauhceratops mudei Rivera-Sylva et al. 2017
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| H. E. Rivera-Sylva et al. 2017 | Centrosaurine ceratopsid with the following diagnostic characters (autapomorphies): (1) short ventral ridge on the ventrolateral surface of the squamosal that ends adjacent to the postquadratic embayment; (2) prominent rugose sub-circular protuberance on the squamosal ridge. |
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| References: Marsh 1875, Norman and Weishampel 1991 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Campanian | Mexico (Coahuila) | Ceratopsidae indet. (type locality: 113768) |