This new dinosaur was a distant cousin of the famed ceratopsian dinosaurTriceratops and lived early in the Late Jurassic period, roughly 160 million years ago.
According to a study published this week in the journal PLoS ONE, the find is one of the oldest known of ceratopsians.
The remains of Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis – a partial skull and foot – were collected from the Shishugou Formation of the Junggar Basin, northwestern China.
Like Triceratops, the new species was a plant-eater. But it didn’t have horns and was about the size of a spaniel.
Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis walked on two legs and had ornamental texture on nearly all parts of the skull.-READ MORE -http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/hualianceratops-wucaiwanensis-new-species-ceratopsian-dinosaur-china-03504.html
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