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horned dinosaur
Zhuchengceratops
Say it like this: “JOO-chang-SEH-ruh-tops”
Zhuchengceratops inexpectus
Zhuchengceratops 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
- 2010 · Xu, X.; Wang, K.; Zhao, X.; Sullivan, C.; Chen, S.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 2.5 m · 8 ft
- Weight
- 175 kg · 386 lb
- Found in
- China · Hongtuya
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- horned dinosaur · Ceratopsian
- Family branch
- Leptoceratopsidae
The story in short
The genus Zhuchengceratops dates to 2010, the year X. Xu and colleagues described it. The name means “horned face.”
It lived in 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 Zhuchengceratops 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.