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Kingdom
  
Superorder
  
Infraorder
  
Scientific name
  
Cerasinops hodgskissi

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Reptilia

Suborder
  
Cerapoda

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
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Similar
  
Prenoceratops, Bainoceratops, Asiaceratops, Auroraceratops, Breviceratops

Cerasinops (meaning 'cherry face') was a small ceratopsian dinosaur. It lived during the Campanian of the late Cretaceous Period. Its fossils have been found in Two Medicine Formation, in Montana. The type species of the genus Cerasinops is C. hodgskissi.

Cerasinops was named and described by Brenda Chinnery and Jack Horner in 2007 from a specimen (MOR 300) almost 80% complete. Cerasinops belonged to the Ceratopsia (the name is Ancient Greek for 'horned face'), a group of herbivorous dinosaurs with parrot-like beaks that throve in North America and Asia during the Cretaceous Period. Within this group, it has been placed as a basal member of Neoceratopia, although the description is variable; at one point, it is explicitly assigned to Leptoceratopsidae, but in others, it is considered a sister taxon to Leptoceratopsidae, or as a neoceratopsian in general.

References

Cerasinops Wikipedia


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