Genus
Valid Extinct

Menefeeceratops

Dalman et al. 2021

Menefeeceratops is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Menefee Formation in New Mexico, United States. It is potentially the oldest known member of the ceratopsids, as well as the centrosaurine subfamily, related to animals including Yehuecauhceratops and Crittendenceratops. The type and only species is Menefeeceratops sealeyi, known from a partial, non-articulated skeleton.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Menefeeceratops
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Menefeeceratops sealeyi holotype squamosal © Rivera-Sylva, H.E.; Hendrick, B.P.; Dodson, P. · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Neornithischia Unranked clade
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Pyrodontia Unranked clade
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Cerapoda Unranked clade
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Marginocephalia Unranked clade
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Ceratopsia Suborder
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Ceratopsidae Family
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Centrosaurinae Subfamily
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Menefeeceratops Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
1
Geological formations
Menefee
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Menefeeceratops sealeyi 84 Ma
Images 3
Bibliography
Original description
S. G. Dalman, S. G. Lucas, and S. E. Jasinski, A. J. Lichtig, P. Dodson. 2021. The oldest centrosaurine: a new ceratopsid dinosaur (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae) from the Allison Member of the Menefee Formation (Upper Cretaceous, early Campanian), northwestern New Mexico, USA. Paläontologische Zeitschrift DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
S. G. Dalman, S. G. Lucas, and S. E. Jasinski, A. J. Lichtig, P. Dodson. 2021. The oldest centrosaurine: a new ceratopsid dinosaur (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae) from the Allison Member of the Menefee Formation (Upper Cretaceous, early Campanian), northwestern New Mexico, USA. Paläontologische Zeitschrift DOI ↗