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horned dinosaur · Doubtful name
Kulceratops
Say it like this: “kool-SER-a-tops”
Kulceratops kulensis
Kulceratops ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Uzbekistan.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Albian) · roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago
- Named in
- 1995 · Nessov, L. A.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Uzbekistan · Khodzhakul
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- horned dinosaur · Ceratopsian
- Family branch
- Neoceratopsia
The story in short
In 1995, L. A. Nessov published the name Kulceratops. The name means “horned face.”
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Albian), roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago. Finds come from Uzbekistan, including the Khodzhakul Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
The fossils of Kulceratops are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Neoceratopsia, among the horned dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Aquilops
Aquilops americanus
Early Cretaceous (Albian) · roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago
Archaeoceratops
Archaeoceratops oshimai
Early Cretaceous (Aptian · Albian) · roughly 121.4 to 100.5 million years ago
Asiaceratops
Asiaceratops salsopaludalis
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago