Xenoceratops ( lat. Xenoceratops , from other Greek ξένος “alien” and ceratops “ ceratops ”) is a genus of herbivorous dinosaurs from the centrosaurine subfamily of the ceratopsid family. Famous fossil specimens about 78 million years old were discovered in the Canadian province of Alberta and belong to the Upper Cretaceous ( Campanian age ).
| † Xenoceratops |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Infraclass : | Archosauromorphs |
| No rank : | Archosauriformes |
| Treasure : | † Marginocephals |
| Infrastructure : | † Ceratops |
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| International scientific name |
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Xenoceratops
Ryan, Evans & Shepherd, 2012 |
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† Xenoceratops foremostensis
Ryan, Evans & Shepherd, 2012 |
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One species of the genus, Xenoceratops foremostensis, is described . Skull fossils were found in 1958 by the paleontological expedition of Wann Langston [1] , 7 km from the Canadian village of Formost . For more than 50 years, the remains were in the vaults of the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa and were carefully examined in 2009 by a group of scientists led by Michael J. Ryan . The results were published in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences in 2012.