Cerasinops

Say it like this: “SEH-ruh-SIN-ops”

Cerasinops hodgskissi

Cerasinops ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United States.

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When: Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Named in: 2007 · Chinnery, B. J.; Horner, J. R.
Hip height: Not established
Length: 2.5 m · 8 ft
Weight: 175 kg · 386 lb
Found in: the United States · Two Medicine
Food and walking: Herbivore · Four legs
Kind: horned dinosaur · Ceratopsian
Family branch: Leptoceratopsidae

The story in short

In 2007, B. J. Chinnery and J. R. Horner published the name Cerasinops.

It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the Two Medicine Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.

Published estimates put Cerasinops at a length near 2.5 m and a body mass around 175 kg.

On the family tree it sits in Leptoceratopsidae, among the horned dinosaurs.

Close relatives

Ferrisaurus

Ferrisaurus sustutensis

Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago

Gremlin

Gremlin slobodorum

Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago

Gryphoceratops

Gryphoceratops morrisoni

Late Cretaceous (Santonian) · roughly 85.7 to 83.6 million years ago