| Sinoceratops Temporal range: Late Cretaceous |
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| Illustration of the known portion of the skull | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Ornithischia |
| Infraorder: | Ceratopsia |
| Family: | Ceratopsidae |
| Subfamily: | Centrosaurinae |
| Genus: | Sinoceratops Xu et al., 2010 |
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Sinoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur described by Xu Xing and colleagues in 2010. It lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now China. The type species is S. zhuchengensis.[1]
A basal centrosaurine, Sinoceratops is significant in that it bears similarities to both centrosaurines and chasmosaurines. It was also considerably larger than most other centrosaurines. The skull of sinoceratops is estimated to be 180cm long what makes it one of the largest centrosaurine skulls.
Paleoblog - Sinoceratops zhuchengensis, First Ceratopsid from China