Spiclypeus

spiked shield

• spica · Latin · spike, point
• clypeus · Latin · shield

The name combines Latin words for "spike" and "shield", referring to the spiky frill of this horned dinosaur. Its brow horns curve sideways and down. The team that described it nicknamed it "Mister Spock" because the horns look like Spock's eyebrows. The type species, S. shipporum, honours the Shipp family, who owned the land where it was found.

Named by

Mallon et al.

Year named

2016

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Judith River Formation, Montana, USA

A chasmosaurine ceratopsid (horned dinosaur). The type species is Spiclypeus shipporum. The pronunciation is an approximation.