Crittendenceratops

Crittendenceratops (meaning "horned face from the Fort Crittenden Formation") is a genus of horned centrosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur from the late Campanian Fort Crittenden Formation of Arizona. It contains a single species, C. krzyzanowskii, and represents the first species of dinosaur from the Fort Crittenden Formation to receive a formal scientific name.

Crittendenceratops
Temporal range: Campanian, 73 Ma
Life reconstruction of C. kryzanowskii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Family: Ceratopsidae
Subfamily: Centrosaurinae
Tribe: Nasutoceratopsini
Genus: Crittendenceratops
Dalman et al., 2018
Species:
C. krzyzanowskii
Binomial name
Crittendenceratops krzyzanowskii
Dalman et al., 2018

Description

Size of Crittendenceratops compared to a human

Crittendenceratops is distinguished by forward-curving, hook-like flanges located along the central portion of the top of the frill, "extensive" epiparietals located along the sides of the parietal portion of the frill, a thickening of the frill in the parietal portion, and a short, pronounced ridge on the surface of the squamosal portion of the frill.[1]

Classification

Crittendenceratops was assigned to the Nasutoceratopsini (which also includes Avaceratops, Nasutoceratops, and Yehuecauhceratops), a tribe of the ceratopsid subfamily Centrosaurinae, by Dalman et al. (2018). The cladogram below follows their phylogenetic analysis:[1]

Diabloceratops eatoni

Centrosaurinae
Nasutoceratopsini

Yehuecauhceratops mudei

Nasutoceratops titusi

Avaceratops lammersi

MOR 692

CMN 8804

Crittendenceratops krzyzanowskii

'Malta centrosaurine'

Albertaceratops nesmoi

Medusaceratops lokii

Sinoceratops zhuchengensis

Wendiceratops pinhornensis

Machairoceratops cronusi

Eucentrosaura

Einiosaurus procurvicornis

Achelousaurus horneri

Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum

Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai

Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis

Centrosaurini

Coronosaurus brinkmani

Xenoceratops foremostensis

Spinops sternbergorum

Centrosaurus apertus

Rubeosaurus ovatus

Styracosaurus albertensis

See also

References

  1. Dalman, Sebastian G.; Hodnett, John-Paul M.; Lichtig, Asher J.; Lucas, Spencer G. (2018). "A new ceratopsid dinosaur (Centrosaurinae: Nasutoceratopsini) from the Fort Crittenden Formation, Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of Arizona". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 79: 141–164.
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