Microceratus

Microceratus
Temporal occurrence
	Upper Cretaceous ( Santonium to Campanium )
	86.3 to 72 million years
Locations
	China;
Systematics
	Dinosaur (dinosauria)
	Pelvic dinosaur (Ornithischia)
	Thyreophora
	Marginocephalia
	Ceratopsia
	Microceratus
Scientific name
	Microceratus
	Mateus , 2008
species
	Microceratus gobiensis (Bohlin, 1953) ; Microceratus sulcidens (Bohlin, 1953) ;

Microceratus (formerly Microceratops ) is a controversial genus of the bird pelvic dinosaur (Ornithischia) from the group of the Ceratopsia .

Only a few teeth, lower jaw parts and bones of Microceratus are known, which do not allow an exact description of this dinosaur. In addition, isolated finds were only awarded due to their small size, which is no longer tenable. A find was also spun off as a separate genus Graciliceratops in 2000 , which is why Microceratus is now considered a nomen dubium .

The genus was originally called Microceratops by Birger Bohlin in 1953 , but since the name is occupied by a parasitic wasp genus , Octavio Mateus proposed the new name Microceratus in 2008 .

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) .

Individual evidence

^ Dougal Dixon : The World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures. Lorenz, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-7548-1730-7 , p. 360.
↑ Octávio Mateus: Two ornithischian dinosaurs renamed: Microceratops Bohlin 1953 and Diceratops Lull 1905. In: Journal of Paleontology. Vol. 82, No. 2, 2008, ISSN 0022-3360 , p. 423, doi : 10.1666 / 07-069.1 .

[1] Dougal Dixon : The World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures. Lorenz, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-7548-1730-7 , p. 360.

[2] Octávio Mateus: Two ornithischian dinosaurs renamed: Microceratops Bohlin 1953 and Diceratops Lull 1905. In: Journal of Paleontology. Vol. 82, No. 2, 2008, ISSN 0022-3360 , p. 423, doi : 10.1666 / 07-069.1 .