Agujaceratops

Agujaceratops (meaning "Horned face from Aguja") is a genus of herbivorous

ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian which lived during the
Agujaceratops
Late Cretaceous period (late Campanian stage) in what is now Texas. Originally Temporal range: Late Cretaceous ,
known as Chasmosaurus mariscalensis and described by Lehman in 1989, it 77 Ma
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was moved to a new genus by Lucas, Sullivan and Hunt in 2006. Lehman felt PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K PgN
the habitat Agujaceratops lived in (at least where the fossil material was found)
may have been a swamp, due to the nature of the sediments. Lehman, Wick &
Barnes (2016) described a second species,Agujaceratops mavericus.[1]

Contents
Discovery and species
Skeletal restoration
See also
References Scientific classification
External links Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Discovery and species Clade: Dinosauria

In 1938, three dinosaur bone Order: †Ornithischia

beds were excavated, and Family: †Ceratopsidae
ceratopsian material was
Subfamily: †Chasmosaurinae
collected from Big Bend
National Park (Texas) by Genus: †Agujaceratops
William Strain. This material Lucas, Sullivan & Hunt,
was studied by Lehman in 2006
Restoration of Agujaceratops
mariscalensis 1989[2] and named
Chasmosaurus mariscalensis. Type species
It is known only from the †Agujaceratops mariscalensis
holotype UTEP P.37.7.086 a (Lehman, 1989)
partial adult skull which
Species
includes a braincase, left
supraorbital horncore, left
A. mariscalensis (Lehman,
maxilla and a right dentary.
Size comparison of Agujaceratops Additional material was 1989)
mariscalensis to human associated with the holotype, A. mavericus (Lehman et al.,
but not considered to be part of
2016)
it. All specimens of
Agujaceratops were collected from the lower part of the Upper Shale member Synonyms
of the Aguja Formation, dating to about 77 million years ago,[3] in the Big Bend
National Park, Brewster County. Subsequent analysis resulted in the taxon Chasmosaurus mariscalensis
being put in its own genus. Agujaceratops was named by Spencer G. Lucas, Lehman, 1989
Robert M. Sullivan and Adrian Hunt in 2006, and the type species is
 Agujaceratops mariscalensis. Agujaceratops is similar to both Pentaceratops and
Chasmosaurus. Its short frill suggests it probably was not an ancestor of
Pentaceratops.

See also
Juvenile Agujaceratops skeleton as Timeline of ceratopsian research
reproduced by Triebold Paleontology 2016 in paleontology
in Woodland Park, Colorado, USA

References
1. Lehman, T.M.; Wick, S.L.; Barnes, K.R. (2016). "New specimens of horned dinosaurs from the Aguja Formation of
West Texas, and a revision ofAgujaceratops". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. Online edition.
doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1210683(https://doi.org/10.1080%2F14772019.2016.1210683) .
2. Lehman, T. M. (1989). "Chasmosaurus mariscalensis, sp. Nov., a new ceratopsian dinosaur from Texas". Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology. 9 (2): 137. doi:10.1080/02724634.1989.10011749(https://doi.org/10.1080%2F02724634.1
989.10011749).
3. Longrich, N. R.; Sankey, J.; Tanke, D. (2010). "Texacephale langstoni, a new genus of pachycephalosaurid
(Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the upper Campanian Aguja Formation, southernexas,
T USA". Cretaceous
Research. 31 (2): 274. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.12.002(https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.cretres.2009.12.002)
.

Dodson, P. (1996). The Horned Dinosaurs. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. ISBN 0-691-05900-4.
Lucas, S.G.; Sullivan, R.M.; Hunt, A. (2006)."Re-evaluation of Pentaceratops and Chasmosaurus (Ornithischia:
Ceratopsidae) in the Upper Cretaceous of the W estern Interior" (PDF). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and
Science Bulletin. 35: 367–370.

External links
DinoGeorge's List of Dinosaurs, includingAgujaceratops
Brief mention of Agujaceratops on the DML and here as well
Texas archosaurs, includingChasmosaurus (now Agujaceratops)

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