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Wendiceratops is a genus of herbivorous centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Canada.

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  • Description
  • Size and distinguishing traits
  • Skeleton
  • Classification
  • Paleobiology
  • References
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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wendiceratops” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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