Navajoceratops

Navajo horned face

• Navajo · English (from the Navajo Nation) · the Navajo people/nation, where the fossils were found
• keras · Greek · horn
• ops · Greek · face

The name combines "Navajo", for the Navajo Nation, on whose land the fossils were found, with the Greek words for "horned face". It refers to a horned, frilled ceratopsid dinosaur from Navajo territory in New Mexico. The type species, N. sullivani, honors paleontologist Robert Sullivan.

Named by

Fowler and Freedman Fowler

Year named

2020

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Naashoibito Member, Ojo Alamo Formation (formerly Kirtland Formation), San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA

A chasmosaurine ceratopsid, originally described from a skull previously assigned to Pentaceratops. Its formation assignment (Naashoibito Member of the Kirtland vs. Ojo Alamo Formation) has varied between authors.