| Ceratops | |
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| An artist's illustration of Ceratops montanus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Family: | †Ceratopsidae |
| Subfamily: | †Ceratopsinae Marsh, 1888 |
| Genus: | †Ceratops Marsh, 1888 |
| Species: | †C. montanus |
| Binomial name | |
| Ceratops montanus Marsh, 1888 | |
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Ceratops (meaning "horn face") is a dubious genus of ceratopsian dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in the Judith River Formation in Montana. Although poorly known, Ceratops is important in the history of dinosaurs, since it is the type genus for which both the Ceratopsia and the Ceratopsidae have been named. The material was a little too poor to be confidently referred to better specimens, and Ceratops is considered a nomen dubium.
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