Ajkaceratops
| Ajkaceratops Temporal range: Santonian ~ | |
|---|---|
| Holotype fused rostral and premaxillae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ceratopsia |
| Infraorder: | †Neoceratopsia |
| Clade: | †Euceratopsia |
| Genus: | †Ajkaceratops Ősi et al., 2010 |
| Species: | †A. kozmai |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ajkaceratops kozmai Ősi et al., 2010 | |
Ajkaceratops (pronounced "oi-ka-sera-tops") is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur described in 2010. It lived during the Late Cretaceous in the western Tethyan archipelago, in what is now Europe. The type species, A. kozmai, is most closely related to forms in east Asia, from where its ancestors may have migrated by island-hopping. The generic name, Ajkaceratops, honors Ajka, a town in Hungary where the fossils were first discovered, combined with the given greek nomination ceratops, meaning "horned face". The specific name, "kozmai", honors Károly Kozma.
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