Crittendenceratops
KRIT-en-den-SERR-ah-tops /ˌkrɪtəndenˈsɛrətɒps/
Accepted genus
Crittenden horned face
- Crittenden · English (place name) · Fort Crittenden Formation, Arizona
- keras · Greek · horn
- ops · Greek · face
The name combines "Crittenden", from the Fort Crittenden Formation in southern Arizona where the fossils were found, with the Greek words for "horn" and "face". It follows the usual naming pattern for horned ceratopsian dinosaurs, so it means roughly "Crittenden horned face". It is a centrosaurine ceratopsid, a group of horned, frilled plant-eaters.
- Named by
- Dalman et al.
- Year named
- 2021
- Period
- Late Cretaceous
- Stage
- Campanian
- Found in
- Fort Crittenden Formation, Arizona, USA
A centrosaurine ceratopsid; the type species is C. krzyzanowskii. Details such as the exact authorship, year and stage are given from memory and are worth checking against the original paper.