Wendiceratops
Sign in to saveWendiceratops is a genus of herbivorous centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Canada.
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Vinony's link graph records 116 inbound references to Wendiceratops, and connects out to Centrosaurinae, Ceratopsia and Pachyrhinosaurus.
Vinony files it under Campanian dinosaurs, Centrosaurinae and Dinosaur genera.
Vinony links it to 16 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Centrosaurinae
- Mass
- 1
- Image
- Wendiceratops skeletal reconstruction.PNG
- Length
- 6
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- Commons category
- Wendiceratops
- taxon name
- Wendiceratops
- taxon rank
- genus
- start time
- 79000000-0
- end time
- 78700000-0
- location of discovery
- Oldman Formation
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Discovery
- Description
- Size and distinguishing traits
- Skeleton
- Classification
- Paleobiology
- References
- External links
Wendiceratops is a genus of herbivorous centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Canada.
==Discovery== thumb|left|Quarry where the holotype was excavated In 2010, Canadian fossil hunter Wendy Sloboda found a centrosaurine bonebed in the Pinhorn Provincial Grazing Reserve south of the Milk River, County of Forty Mile No. 8, Alberta. In 2011, a team of the Royal Tyrrell Museum explored the site and began excavating fossils. Next year, a deep overburden was removed. In 2013 and 2014, numerous fossils were discovered.
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