Magnirostris

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1200px-MagnirostrisDodsoni(Skull)-PaleozoologicalMuseumOfChina-May23-08 — skull

Magnirostris (from the Latin magnus "large" and rostrum "beak") is an invalid genus of ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Campanian epoch in the Late Cretaceous. It was a ceratopsian which lived in Inner Mongolia in China. The genus has since been moved to Bagaceratops.

Discovery and species[]

Magnirostris dodsoni was described by You and Dong Zhiming in 2003, from a near-complete skull collected from the Bayan Mandahu area in Inner Mongolia, China by the Sino-Canadian Dinosaur Project. It was named after Peter Dodson, a paleontologist.

Since its description, the genus has been reallocated as a specimen of Bagaceratops, and the incipient horn cores may be an artifact of preservation.^[1]

References[]

↑ Makovicky, Peter J. (2006). "Yamaceratops dorngobiensis, a new primitive ceratopsian (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Cretaceous of Mongolia" (pdf). American Museum Novitates 3530: 1–42. DOI:[1:YDANPC2.0.CO;2 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3530[1:YDANPC]2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0003-0082.

[MN06-1] Makovicky, Peter J. (2006). "Yamaceratops dorngobiensis, a new primitive ceratopsian (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Cretaceous of Mongolia" (pdf). American Museum Novitates 3530: 1–42. DOI:[1:YDANPC2.0.CO;2 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3530[1:YDANPC]2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0003-0082.

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