Coahuilaceratops

Skull of Coahuilaceratops, the known fragments are colored gray

• Coahuila (Mexico)

• Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna

Coahuilaceratops is a genus of bird Beck dinosaur ( Ornithischia ), which is assigned to the Chasmosaurinae. In 2010 he was of Loewen et al. described and named after the Mexican state of Coahuila ( " Coahuila horn face" ), in which he was found in the Cerro del Pueblo Formation in rocks from the Upper Cretaceous ( Campanian ).

Coahuilaceratops was with a possible length of 6.7 meters, a larger representative of Ceratopsidae. Estimates of the weight amount to four to five tons. The person sitting on the 1.8 -meter-long skull horns are specified with a length of 1.2 meters, which he could have carried the longest horns of all known dinosaurs.

Coahuilaceratops moved away four-legged ( quadruped ) and was a herbivore ( herbivore ).

System

The type species is Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna. After a phylogenetic analysis of Loewen et al. are closely related to him Anchiceratops and Arrhinoceratops. Sampson et al. Coahuilaceratops place, as shown below in a cladogram:

Coahuilaceratops

Kosmoceratops

Vagaceratops

Anchiceratops

Arrhinoceratops