Notoceratops

Notoceratops; Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
	Mandible.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Ornithischia
Suborder:	?Marginocephalia
Infraorder:	?Ceratopsia
Genus:	Notoceratops; Tapia, 1918
Species
	Notoceratops bonarellii, Tapia, 1918; Notoceratops huananensis, Friets, 2017;

Notoceratops (meaning "southern horned face") was a ceratopsian dinosaur known only from a late Cretaceous jaw bone. Notoceratops walked on four sturdy legs, had a large head, a bulky body, a parrot-like beak, cheek teeth, and a small frill on its head.

Discovery

Notoceratops was named by Augusto Tapia in 1918 from a partial lower jaw found in Chubut, Argentina. This original Notoceratops bonarelli is missing and there is some doubt as to whether or not this fossil was actually a ceratopsian.

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