Meet Menefeeceratops a new Centrosaurine Ceratopsid

[Gothmog the Baryonyx]

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-021-00555-w__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!_gua4x8w2pzbuj6U6Pth4XGJ83O4IyCkf8frr3dhtgClzsr5WKkpT6dTKvX8hFoF$


This fella was actually named several hours earlier than Tlatolophus. That's two new Ornithiscians in a less than 12 hours named.

[sauroid]

too bad the link isnt working for me.

[Justin_]

Link didn't work for me either. Try these:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210511160727.htm
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-021-00555-w

Reconstruction by Sergey Krasovskiy


The Springer article says it is centrosaurine.

[sauroid]

Menefeeceratops sealeyi skeletal illus.

[Gothmog the Baryonyx]

Chasmosaurine seems to be my default sorry, I did read Centrosaurine but read Chasmosaurine anyway

[Halichoeres]

Chasmosaurine seems to be my default sorry, I did read Centrosaurine but read Chasmosaurine anyway

I know how you feel. Sometimes when I try to type "Gigantspinosaurus," "Giganotosaurus" comes out instead.

[stargatedalek]

In before it gets lumped into Nasutoceratops.

[Dynomikegojira]

Lol nevermind lumping it to Nasutoceratops if anything it should be lumped with Crittendenceratops. Glad we have another named dinosaur from this formation regardless

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

It's interesting to see the similarities between basal centrosaurines and chasmosaurines.

There are two versions of that picture I've seen going around. One has a nasal horn and the other doesn't.

[Gothmog the Baryonyx]

Well Dynamoterror is (thankfully) already a nomen dubium, so maybe this will join it.
It is interesting for now though I think.

[Halichoeres]

There are two versions of that picture I've seen going around. One has a nasal horn and the other doesn't.

Interesting. I guess with that part of the skull not being preserved, Krasovskiy wanted to represent the uncertainty.

[austrosaurus]

Well Dynamoterror is (thankfully) already a nomen dubium, so maybe this will join it.
It is interesting for now though I think.

Given that Dynamoterror was represented by a solitary skull fragment and this is the majority of a skeleton (albeit fragmentary), I highly doubt this will turn out to be a nomen dubium. It is interesting that the Menefee Formation tends to turn out fragmentary material thus far (Dynamoterror, Menefeeceratops & Invictarx) rather than articulated specimens; anything in the paleoenvironment that would have made this the case?