Kulceratops
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Lower Cretaceous (early Albian ) | ||||||||||
112.9 to 110.2 million years | ||||||||||
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Kulceratops | ||||||||||
Nessov , 1995 |
Kulceratops is a little known species of bird Beck dinosaurs (ornithopoda) from the group of Ceratopsia .
So far, only a fragment of the upper jaw of this dinosaur is known. Although the find suggests belonging to the Ceratopsia, it is too sparse for a more precise classification. Kulceratops is therefore considered a nomen dubium .
The fossil of this dinosaur was found in the Khodzhakul 'formation in Uzbekistan and was first described in 1995 . The genus name is derived from the Uzbek kul (= "lake", an allusion to the place where it was found) and the Greek keratops (= "horny face"), a common part of the Ceratopsia name. The type species is K. kulensis . The finds are dated in the Lower Cretaceous (early Albian ) to an age of about 113 to 110 million years.
literature
- You Hailu, Peter Dodson : Basal Ceratopsia. In: David B. Weishampel , Peter Dodson, Halszka Osmólska (eds.): The Dinosauria . 2nd edition. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 2004, ISBN 0-520-24209-2 , pp. 478-493, digitized version (PDF; 807.25 kB) .