This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Sinoceratops

The holotype was found in 2008 in the Hongtuya Formation of the Wangshi Group in Shandong, China. It consists of a partial skull, including a braincase.

Paleontologist Xu Xing and colleagues described and named Sinoceratops, in 2010.

Sinoceratops was the first ceratopsian found in Asia. Its not exactly clear, due to the fragmentary nature of the fossils, how they related to American ceratopsians.

Using the holidays as an excuse to take things easy I decided to take a quick and easy look at another Captivz dinosaur. This time we’re looking at the only Captivz ceratopsian left to review, the Sinoceratops.

Sinoceratops needs no introduction these days. Described in 2010, its popularity has skyrocketed in recent years. Maybe that’s because it’s the first ceratopsid described from […]

This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Sinoceratops

The holotype was found in 2008 in the Hongtuya Formation of the Wangshi Group in Shandong, China. It consists of a partial skull, including a braincase.

Paleontologist Xu Xing and colleagues described and named Sinoceratops, in 2010.

Sinoceratops was the first ceratopsian found in Asia. Its not exactly clear, due to the fragmentary nature of the fossils, how they related to American ceratopsians.

Sinoceratops (Haolonggood)

Review and images by bmathison1972; edited by Suspsy

Sinoceratops zhuchengensis is a centrosaurine ceratopsid that lived during the Late Cretaceous of present-day China. The holotype specimen was discovered in 2008 from the Hongtuya Formation in Shandong Province and was formally described in 2010. It was the first ceratopsid formally described from China! The holotype specimen includes a […]

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