Genus
Valid Extinct

Hualianceratops

Han et al. 2015

Hualianceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur that lived about 160 million years ago in the Late Jurassic epoch in what is now western China. The single species, H. wucaiwanensis was described in 2015. Its size has been compared to that of a spaniel.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Hualianceratops
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Hualianceratops holotype IVVP V18641, Skull reconstruction © Crizz30 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
Hualianceratops
Hualianceratops
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Neornithischia Unranked clade
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Pyrodontia Unranked clade
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Cerapoda Unranked clade
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Marginocephalia Unranked clade
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Ceratopsia Suborder
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Chaoyangsauridae Family
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Hualianceratops Genus
Measurements
Length
1,55 m ⓘ
Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis
Mass
20 kg ⓘ
Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Shishugou
1
Temporal distribution
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis 162 Ma
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
F. Han, C. A. Forster, and J. M. Clark, X. Xu. 2015. A new taxon of basal ceratopsian from China and the early evolution of Ceratopsia. PLoS ONE 10(12):e0143369:1-23 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
F. Han, C. A. Forster, and J. M. Clark, X. Xu. 2015. A new taxon of basal ceratopsian from China and the early evolution of Ceratopsia. PLoS ONE 10(12):e0143369:1-23 DOI ↗