Ajkaceratops
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Ajkaceratops (pronounced "oi-ka-se-ra-tops") is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur described in 2010. It lived in the Cretaceous period in what is now Europe, in what was back then the Tethyan archipelago. It is a ceratopsian, and is beaked. Ceratops means "horned face" in Greek.
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Ajkaceratops | |
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Holotype fused rostral and premaxillae | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Order: | †Ornithischia |
Family: | †Bagaceratopidae |
Genus: | †Ajkaceratops Ősi et al., 2010 |
Species: | †A. kozmai |
Binomial name | |
Ajkaceratops kozmai Ősi et al., 2010 | |
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The generic name, Ajkaceratops, honors Ajka, a town in Hungary where the fossils where found.