Zhuchengceratops
Zhuchengceratops was a small, horned dinosaur that lived in what is now China. It had a very deep and strong jaw, like a pair of giant nutcrackers. Scientists were surprised to find its skeleton all in one piece!2
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Zhuchengceratops had a lower jaw that was about 50 centimeters long, which is very deep and thin side-to-side.2
Unlike its big cousins like Triceratops, Zhuchengceratops had no horns and only a very short frill on its head.2
Its skeleton was found in a bone bed full of Shantungosaurus bones, which are huge duck-billed dinosaurs.2
Zhuchengceratops lived about 83 to 72 million years ago, during the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous.3
Scientists think Zhuchengceratops was an adult because the bones in its spine were fully fused together.2
This dinosaur is a member of the Leptoceratopsidae family, a group of small horned dinosaurs that lived alongside bigger horned dinosaurs.2
Most asked questions about Zhuchengceratops
?How big was Zhuchengceratops?
Zhuchengceratops was about 2.5 meters long and weighed around 175 kilograms. That is about the size of a large pig.1
?Did Zhuchengceratops have horns?
No, Zhuchengceratops did not have horns. Unlike its big cousins like Triceratops, it had no horns and only a very short frill on its head.1
?What did Zhuchengceratops eat?
Zhuchengceratops was a plant-eater. Its deep, strong jaws and big teeth were adapted for chewing tough plants, possibly different from what other horned dinosaurs ate.2
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- Scientific name
- Zhuchengceratops
- Named by
- Xu et al. 20104
- Group
- Horned dinos
- Family / clade
- Leptoceratopsidae4
- Classification
- Ornithischia > Ceratopsia4
- Age of the rocks
- 84 to 72 million years (Campanian)4
- Rock formations
- Hongtuya4
- Countries
- China4
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
- Discovery
- Zhuchengceratops was named in 2010 by Xing Xu and colleagues after they found a partial articulated skeleton in the Wangshi Group of Shandong, China.2
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Zhuchengceratops is related to other leptoceratopsids like Leptoceratops and Udanoceratops.2
Where the facts come from
- Zhuchengceratops (en.wikipedia.org)
- A New Leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China and Its Implications for Neoceratopsian Evolution | PLOS One (journals.plos.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Zhuchengceratops in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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