Dinosauria›Ornithischia
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Mosaiceratops Mosaiceratops azumai Zheng et al. 2015
/mˈɑːseɪsɚɹˌætɑːps/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 93.9–72.2 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Where It Was Found
Country
China
Region
Henan
Formation
Xiaguan
Dig sites
1
distinct collections
Overview
Mosaiceratops azumai is a ceratopsian dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 93.9–72.2 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling. Fossils have been recovered from Henan, China. It was named by Zheng et al. 2015. The species is represented by 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~5%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Mosaiceratops azumai sits in deep time
Mosaiceratops
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Mosaiceratops azumai's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.