Arrhinoceratops
Sign in to saveArrhinoceratops (meaning "no nose-horn face", derived from the Ancient Greek "a-/α-" "no", rhis/ῥίς "nose" "keras/κέρας" "horn", "-ops/ὤψ" "face") is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. The name was coined as its original describer concluded it was special because the nose-horn was not a separate bone, however further analysis revealed this was based on a misunderstanding. It lived during the latest Campanian/earliest Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous, predating its famous relative Triceratops by a few million years, although it was contemporary with Anchiceratops. Its remain
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Chasmosaurinae
- Image
- Arrhinoceratops brachyops skull, Near Drumheller, Alberta, Late Cretaceous - Royal Ontario Museum - DSC00076.JPG
- Length
- 6.0
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- Commons category
- Arrhinoceratops
- taxon name
- Arrhinoceratops
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- アリノケラトプス
- start time
- 70600000-0
- end time
- 70000000-0
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
- location of discovery
- Canada
- main food source
- herbivore
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- Discoveries and species
- Description
- Phylogeny
- Paleobiology
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Arrhinoceratops (meaning "no nose-horn face", derived from the Ancient Greek "a-/α-" "no", rhis/ῥίς "nose" "keras/κέρας" "horn", "-ops/ὤψ" "face") is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. The name was coined as its original describer concluded it was special because the nose-horn was not a separate bone, however further analysis revealed this was based on a misunderstanding. It lived during the latest Campanian/earliest Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous, predating its famous relative Triceratops by a few million years, although it was contemporary with Anchiceratops. Its remains have been found in Canada.
==Discoveries and species== Described by William Arthur Parks in 1925, Arrhinoceratops is known from a partially crushed, slightly distorted skull which lacked the lower jaws. The remains were collected from the Neill's Ranch site, along the Red Deer River in Alberta by a 1923 expedition from the University of Toronto.
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