Genus
Valid Extinct

Notoceratops

southern horn face
Tapia 1919
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Notoceratops is a dubious genus of extinct ornithischian dinosaur. The genus was described based on an incomplete, toothless left dentary from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, probably dating to the Campanian or Maastrichtian. Initially classified as a putative ceratopsian found in the Lago Colhué Huapi Formation, the lost fragmentary holotype precludes confident referral of this taxon within ornithischians, with some researchers suggesting that it belongs to a hadrosaur instead.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Notoceratops
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Holotype mandible of Notoceratops (now lost) © The original uploader was Ghedo at Italian Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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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Notoceratops Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇷 Argentina
1
Geological formations
Lago Colhué Huapi
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Notoceratops bonarelli 72 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
A. Tapia. 1919. Una mandibula de Dinosaurioa procedente de Patagonia [A dinosaur mandible from Patagonia]. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales 4:369-370
Bibliography (1)
A. Tapia. 1919. Una mandibula de Dinosaurioa procedente de Patagonia [A dinosaur mandible from Patagonia]. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales 4:369-370