Sasayamagnomus
Sasayamagnomus (meaning "gnome from Sasayama") is an extinct genus of neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Albian age) Ohyamashimo Formation of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The genus contains a single species, Sasayamagnomus saegusai. The holotype individual is estimated to reach long, although this specimen is not fully grown.
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Sasayamagnomus (meaning "gnome from Sasayama") is an extinct genus of neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Albian age) Ohyamashimo Formation of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The genus contains a single species, Sasayamagnomus saegusai. The holotype individual is estimated to reach long, although this specimen is not fully grown.
== Discovery and naming == Sasayamagnomus was found at the Miyada microvertebrate site in Tamba-Sasayama city, Hyōgo Prefecture. It is known from 17 assorted cranial bones, the right coracoid and a left tibia. The presence of two right nasals in the material suggests that at least two individuals were represented. Before its formal description, the fossil material was mentioned in a conference abstract in 2023.