#mojoceratops

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Name: Mojoceratops perifania

Name Meaning: Mojo Horned Face

First Described: 2010

Described By: Longrich

Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Neoceratopsia, Coronosauria, Ceratopsoidea, Ceratopsidae, Chasmosaurinae, “Chasmosaurini”

(Note: Chasmosaurini is not a valid clade name, rather an informal name I have given to those Chasmosaurines found to be more closely related to Chasmosaurus than to Triceratops in the phylogeny of Brown et al., 2014)

Mojoceratops is a Chasmosaurine from the Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada, living about 76 to 75 million years ago, in the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous. It is known from portions of the skull, and is thus a fairly poorly known genus, and it potentially isn’t an actually distinct genus, but rather potentially a mature growth stage of Chasmosaurus russelli. More research is necessary, but its synonymy with Chasmosaurus seems likely. 

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojoceratops

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasmosaurinae

Dinosaur of the Day: Drunken mojoceratops by IsisMasshiro