Ischioceratops

ischium horned face

• Ischio- · New Latin (from Greek ischion) · ischium, the hip bone
• cerat- · Greek · horn
• -ops · Greek · face

The name combines "ischium" (one of the hip bones), Greek "keras" (horn) and "ops" (face), following the usual pattern for ceratopsian names. The ischium part refers to the unusual, distinctively shaped ischium of the type specimen, which sets this animal apart from other small ceratopsians. The only named species is Ischioceratops zhuchengensis, after Zhucheng in Shandong, China.

Named by

He et al.

Year named

2015

Period

Late Cretaceous

Found in

Zhucheng, Shandong Province, China

A small leptoceratopsid ceratopsian, known from a partial skeleton. Exact stage of the fossils is not given here because I am not certain of it.