| Kosmoceratops Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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| Nix's illustration of Kosmoceratops richardsoni | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| clade: | Dinosauria |
| Family: | †Ceratopsidae |
| Genus: | †Kosmoceratops Sampson, 2010 |
| Species: | †K. richardsoni |
| Binomial name | |
| †Kosmoceratops richardsoni Sampson, 2010 | |
Kosmoceratops is an extinct genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous period. The type species is Kosmoceratops richardsoni.
Discovery and Naming[]
The holotype (UMNH VP 17000) was discovered in Utah in a Kaiparowits Basin Project in 2007. Then, it was referred to as Kaiparowits new taxon A in the 2010 book. In 2010, paleontologist Scott D. Sampson and his colleagues named the new genus Kosmoceratops. The generic name combines "kosmos", meaning ornated, and "ceratops", while the specific name is named after Richardson.
Description[]
It is 4.5 (15ft) long and weighs 1.2 t (1.3 short tons.). It is a quadruped animal. It has long main tooth rows. The naris was different from other ceratopsids. It possessed the most ornate skull, and the ornate skull included one nasal horn, two postorbital horn cores, etc. The narial strut of the premaxilla is also inclined hindward. The nasal horncore is also different from other chasmosaurines.
Classification[]
It is classified as a member of the subfamily Chasmosaurinae in the family Ceratopsidae.
Paleoecology[]
It coexisted with Nasutoceratops, Gryposaurus, Utahceratops, Parasaurolophus, Teratophoneus, and others in the Kaiparowits Formation.
In popular culture[]
- Kosmoceratops appeared in the television show Dinosaur Train.
- In the second season of another television show known as Dino Dan, a show in which a kid can see dinosaurs alive in the real world, one of the dinosaurs he can see is Kosmoceratops.
- Kosmoceratops makes a minor appearance in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as a skeleton at Lockwood Manor.
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