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horned dinosaur
Ischioceratops
Say it like this: “ISS-key-o-SEH-ruh-tops”
Ischioceratops zhuchengensis
Ischioceratops ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2015 · He, Y.; Makovicky, P. J.; Wang, K.; Chen, S.; Sullivan, C.; Han, F.; Xu, X.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 2 m · 7 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- China · Hongtuya
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- horned dinosaur · Ceratopsian
- Family branch
- Leptoceratopsidae
The story in short
The genus Ischioceratops dates to 2015, the year Y. He and colleagues described it. The name means “ischium horned face.”
Fossils referred to Ischioceratops date to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Hongtuya Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Ischioceratops at a length near 2 m.
On the family tree it sits in Leptoceratopsidae, among the horned dinosaurs.