Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Ceratopsia › Ceratopsidae
Sierraceratops
Sierraceratops turneri Dalman et al. 2022
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · 83.6–66 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Sierraceratops turneri is a ceratopsian dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–66.0 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by Dalman et al. 2022. 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%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 1 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Sierraceratops sits in deep time
Sierraceratops
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Sierraceratops's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.