Genus
Valid Extinct

Sierraceratops

Dalman et al. 2022

Sierraceratops is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian from the Late Cretaceous Hall Lake Formation of New Mexico, United States. The genus contains a single species, Sierraceratops turneri, known from a partial skeleton discovered in 1997.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Sierraceratops
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Sierraceratops turneri © SmirnovaNataliaArt · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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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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Ceratopsidae Family
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Chasmosaurinae Subfamily
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Sierraceratops Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
1
Geological formations
Hall Lake
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Sierraceratops turneri 84 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
S. G. Dalman, S. G. Lucas, and S. E. Jasinski, N. R. Longrich. 2022. Sierraceratops turneri, a new chasmosaurine ceratopsid from the Hall Lake Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of south-central New Mexico. Cretaceous Research 130:105034 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
S. G. Dalman, S. G. Lucas, and S. E. Jasinski, N. R. Longrich. 2022. Sierraceratops turneri, a new chasmosaurine ceratopsid from the Hall Lake Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of south-central New Mexico. Cretaceous Research 130:105034 DOI ↗