Helioceratops
Sign in to saveHelioceratops is a genus of herbivorous neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Middle Cretaceous of China.
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- Parent taxon
- Ceratopsia
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- Helioceratops
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- Helioceratops
- time period
- Cretaceous
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Helioceratops is a genus of herbivorous neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Middle Cretaceous of China.
==Discovery and naming== In 2000 and 2002, at the Liufangzi site of China's eastern Jilin province, excavations took place during which the jaws were found of a ceratopsian new to science.
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