Menefeeceratops
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Menefeeceratops (meaning "Menefee Formation horned face") is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Menefee Formation in New Mexico, United States. It is potentially the oldest known member of the ceratopsids, as well as the centrosaurine subfamily, related to animals including Yehuecauhceratops and Crittendenceratops. The type and only species is Menefeeceratops sealeyi, known from a partial, non-articulated skeleton.[1]
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Menefeeceratops | |
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Life reconstruction of M. sealeyi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Ceratopsia |
Family: | †Ceratopsidae |
Subfamily: | †Centrosaurinae |
Genus: | †Menefeeceratops Dalman et al., 2021 |
Type species | |
†Menefeeceratops sealeyi Dalman et al., 2021 |
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