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'''''Zhuchengceratops''''' (meaning "wandering (''vagus'', [[Latin]]) horned face", in reference to its close relationship with ''[[Kosmoceratops]]'' from [[Utah]]) is a [[genus]] of [[herbivorous]] [[ceratopsia]]n [[dinosaur]]. |
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| fossil_range = [[Late Cretaceous]] |
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| regnum = [[Animal]]ia |
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| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] |
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| classis = [[Reptile|Reptilia]] |
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| superordo = [[Dinosaur]]ia |
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| ordo = [[Ornithischia]] |
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| infraordo = [[Ceratopsia]] |
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| familia = [[Leptoceratopsidae]] |
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| genus = '''''Zhuchengceratops''''' |
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| genus_authority = Xu ''et al.'', 2010 |
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'''''Z. inexpectus''''' <small>Xu ''et al.'', 2010 ([[Type (biology)|type]])</small> |
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'''''Zhuchengceratops''''' (meaning "[[Zhucheng]] horned face") is a [[genus]] of [[herbivorous]] [[ceratopsia]]n [[dinosaur]]. It is a [[Leptoceratopsidae|leptoceratopsid]] [[ceratopsian]] which lived during the [[Late Cretaceous]] [[period (geology)|period]] in what is now Kugou, [[Zhucheng|Zhucheng County]], [[China]]. Its fossils have been recovered from the [[Wangshi Group]].<ref name="Sampson">{{Cite journal|author=Xing Xu, Kebai Wang, Xijin Zhao, Corwin Sullivan, Shuqing Chen |year=2010 |title=A New Leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China and Its Implications for Neoceratopsian Evolution |url=http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0013835 |journal=PLoS ONE |volume=5 |issue=11 |pages=e13835 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0013835 }}</ref> This genus was named by Xing Xu, Kebai Wang, Xijin Zhao, Corwin Sullivan and Shuqing Chen in [[2010 in paleontology|2010]], and the type species is ''Zhuchengceratops inexpectus''.<ref name="Sampson"/> |
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| Zhuchengceratops Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Zhuchengceratops (meaning "Zhucheng horned face") is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a leptoceratopsid ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Kugou, Zhucheng County, China. Its fossils have been recovered from the Wangshi Group.[1] This genus was named by Xing Xu, Kebai Wang, Xijin Zhao, Corwin Sullivan and Shuqing Chen in 2010, and the type species is Zhuchengceratops inexpectus.[1]
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- ^ a b Xing Xu, Kebai Wang, Xijin Zhao, Corwin Sullivan, Shuqing Chen (2010). "A New Leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China and Its Implications for Neoceratopsian Evolution". PLoS ONE. 5 (11): e13835. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013835.
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