Yamaceratops

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Yamaceratops
Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous, Santonian
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Yamaceratops BW.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: †Ornithischia
Suborder: †Ceratopsia
Infraorder: †Neoceratopsia
Genus: †Yamaceratops
Makovicky & Norell, 2006
Species:
†Y. dorngobiensis
Binomial name
†Yamaceratops dorngobiensis
Makovicky & Norell, 2006

Yamaceratops is a genus of primitive ceratopsian that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now the Javkhlant Formation. Initially, the rocks it was found in were thought to be from the Early Cretaceous, but the age was reevaluated in 2009.[1]

The type species, Yamaceratops dorngobiensis, was described by P. J. Makovicky and M. A. Norell in September, 2006. The authors consider the animal to have had an intermediate phylogenetic position between Liaoceratops and Archaeoceratops within Neoceratopia. Examination of the frill of Yamaceratops has convinced the authors that the frill was not used for display, and that the fossils "[hint] at a more complex evolutionary history for ceratopsian frills."[2]

The genus name refers to Yama, a Tibetan Buddhist deity; the species name to the Eastern Gobi. The holotype IGM 100/1315 consists of a partial skull; other material has been found in 2002 and 2003 and has been ascribed to the genus.[2]

A fossilized embryo found within an ornithischian eggshell from sediments where Yamaceratops is common, was in 2008 referred to this genus.[3] However, in 2015 it was reidentified as a bird embryo.[4]

In 2020 Minyoung Son and colleagues reported a juvenile specimen of Yamaceratops found in 2014 at the Khugenslavkhant locality.[5]

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  1. ^ Eberth, David A.; Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu; Lee, Yuong-Nam; Mateus, Octávio; Therrien, François; Zelenitsky, Darla K.; Norell, Mark A. (2009). "Assignment of Yamaceratops dorngobiensis and associated redbeds at Shine Us Khudag (eastern Gobi, Dorngobi Province, Mongolia) to the restricted Javkhlant Formation (Upper Cretaceous)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (1): 295–302. doi:10.1080/02724634.2009.10010384. S2CID 197540125.
  2. ^ a b Makovicky, Peter J.; Norell, Mark A. (2006). "Yamaceratops dorngobiensis, a new primitive ceratopsian (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Cretaceous of Mongolia" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (3530): 1–42. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3530[1:YDANPC]2.0.CO;2.
  3. ^ Balanoff, A.M.; Norell, M.A.; Grellet-Tinner, G.; Lewin, M.R. (2008). "Digital preparation of a probable neoceratopsian preserved within an egg, with comments on microstructural anatomy of ornithischian eggshells". Naturwissenschaften. 95 (6): 493–500. Bibcode:2008NW.....95..493B. doi:10.1007/s00114-008-0347-2. PMID 18347769. S2CID 6421080.
  4. ^ Varricchio D.J., Balanoff A.M., Norell M.A., 2015, "Reidentification of Avian Embryonic Remains from the Cretaceous of Mongolia", PLoS ONE 10(6): e0128458
  5. ^ Son, M.; Lee, Y.-N.; Zorit, B.; Park, J.-Y.; Lee, S.; Kim, S.-H.; Lee, K.-Y. (2020). "A juvenile Yamaceratops dorngobiensis (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) from the Upper Cretaceous Javkhlant Formation of Mongolia" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Program and Abstracts: 311.

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