Agujaceratops

Aguja horned face

• Aguja · Spanish · needle (from the Aguja Formation, Texas)
• keras · Greek · horn
• ops · Greek · face

The name combines Aguja, the formation in west Texas where the fossils were found, with the Greek words for "horn" and "face". The Aguja Formation is itself named from the Spanish word for "needle". The name means "horned face from the Aguja Formation". The species was first described as a Chasmosaurus and was moved to its own genus in 2006.

Named by

Lucas, Sullivan and Hunt

Year named

2006

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Aguja Formation, Big Bend region, Texas, USA

A chasmosaurine ceratopsid (horned dinosaur). The type species is A. mariscalensis, originally named Chasmosaurus mariscalensis by Lehman in 1989. Some researchers have questioned whether it is distinct from other chasmosaurines such as Chasmosaurus or Pentaceratops, so its validity has been debated.