Regaliceratops

royal horned face

• regalis · Latin · royal, regal
• ceratops · Greek · horned face

The name combines Latin "regalis" (royal) with the Greek "ceratops" (horned face). It refers to the crown-like arrangement of horns and bony knobs (epiparietals and episquamosals) around the frill, and also nods to the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, where the specimen is housed. The type species is Regaliceratops peterhewsi, named for Peter Hews, who found the fossil.

Named by

Brown and Henderson

Year named

2015

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

St. Mary River Formation, Alberta, Canada

A ceratopsid (chasmosaurine) dinosaur. Unusual for having a short-frilled, large nose-horned, centrosaurine-like skull despite being a chasmosaurine, an example of convergent evolution.