Mosaiceratops Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Clade: | †Ceratopsia |
Clade: | †Neoceratopsia |
Genus: | †Mosaiceratops Zheng, Jin & Xu, 2015 |
Species: | †M. azumai
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†Mosaiceratops azumai Zheng, Jin & Xu, 2015
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Mosaiceratops is a genus of ceratopsian, described by Zheng, Jin & Xu in 2015 and found in the Xiaguan Formation of Neixiang County. Mosaiceratops lived in the upper Cretaceous in what is now the Henan Province of China.
Although phylogenetic analyses have found Mosaiceratops to be the most basal neoceratopsian, the authors noted that several features in the premaxilla and nasal bones are shared with Psittacosaurus, indicating that neoceratopsians evolved premaxillary teeth twice and that Psittacosaurus is not as primitive as previously thought.[1]