Genus
Valid Extinct

Wendiceratops

Evans and Ryan 2015

Wendiceratops is a genus of herbivorous centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Canada.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Wendiceratops
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Skeletal diagram of Wendiceratops pinhornensis, known material in white, inferred in grey. Modified from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wendiceratops_skeletal_reconstruction.PNG © Original Diagram by David C Evans and Michael J Ryan, recolored by Skye McDavid · 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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Centrosaurinae Subfamily
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Wendiceratops Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇦 Canada
1
Geological formations
Oldman
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Wendiceratops pinhornensis 84 Ma
Images 3
Bibliography
Original description
D. C. Evans and M. J. Ryan. 2015. Cranial anatomy of Wendiceratops pinhornensis gen. et sp. nov., a centrosaurine ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian), Alberta, Canada, and the evolution of ceratopsid nasal ornamentation. PLoS ONE 10(7):e0130007 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
D. C. Evans and M. J. Ryan. 2015. Cranial anatomy of Wendiceratops pinhornensis gen. et sp. nov., a centrosaurine ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian), Alberta, Canada, and the evolution of ceratopsid nasal ornamentation. PLoS ONE 10(7):e0130007 DOI ↗