Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Ceratopsia › Ceratopsidae
Vagaceratops
Vagaceratops irvinensis (Holmes et al. 2001)
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 83.6–72.2 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Vagaceratops irvinensis is a ceratopsian dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–72.2 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by (Holmes et al. 2001). The species is represented by 7 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~24%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 7 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Vagaceratops sits in deep time
Vagaceratops
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Vagaceratops's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.