Hualianceratops

Hualianceratops
Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
Skull reconstruction with the preserved parts in grey
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Ceratopsia
Family: Chaoyangsauridae
Genus: Hualianceratops
Han et al., 2015
Species:
H. wucaiwanensis
Binomial name
Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis
Han et al., 2015

Hualianceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur that lived about 160 million years ago in the Late Jurassic epoch in what is now western China. The single species, H. wucaiwanensis was described in 2015. Its size has been compared to that of a spaniel.

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