Helioceratops

Helioceratops (meaning "sun horned face"; the reference is that the Sun rises in the East and ceratopsians also "rose" in the East; i.e. they originated in the Orient [1])is a genus of neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Middle Cretaceous of China. The type species is H. brachygnathus, described in 2009 by a group of paleontologists led by Jin Liyong. Helioceratops was discovered in the Quantou Formation of China's eastern Jilin province and is known mostly from skull fragments. It reached a length of around 1.3 m (4.3 ft) and may have shared its habitat with Changchunsaurus.[2][3]

Helioceratops Temporal range: Early-Late Cretaceous, Aptian–Cenomanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Ornithischia
Suborder:	Ceratopsia
Family:	Archaeoceratopsidae
Genus:	Helioceratops Jin L. et al., 2009
Species
H. brachygnathus Jin L. et al., 2009

See also

• Timeline of ceratopsian research

References

1. Atkinson, L. "HELIOCERATOPS :: from DinoChecker's dinosaur archive". ‹http://www.dinochecker.com/dinosaurs/HELIOCERATOPS›. Web access: 01st Aug 2020.
2. Paul, Gregory S. The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs. Princeton University Press, 2010.
3. Jin Liyong; Chen Jun, Zan Shuqin and Pascal Godefroit; Zan, Shuqin; Godefroit, Pascal (2009). "A New Basal Neoceratopsian Dinosaur from the Middle Cretaceous of Jilin Province, China". Acta Geologica Sinica. 83 (2): 200. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2009.00023.x.