Wendiceratops

Wendy's horned face

• Wendi · English (personal name) · Wendy Sloboda, the discoverer of the site
• keras · Greek · horn
• ops · Greek · face

Wendiceratops honours Wendy Sloboda, an amateur fossil collector who discovered the bonebed where the first fossils were found. The rest of the name is Greek for "horned face", a common ending for horned dinosaurs. The type species, W. pinhornensis, is named for the Pinhorn Provincial Grazing Reserve in Alberta.

Named by

Evans and Ryan

Year named

2015

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Oldman Formation, Alberta, Canada

A centrosaurine ceratopsid, among the earliest and most basal members of that group known from North America.