HUALIANCERATOPS
a plant-eating chaoyangsaurid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China.
Pronunciation: WAH-lee-un-SEH-ruh-tops
Meaning: Ornamental horn face
Author/s: Han
et al. (
2015)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Xinjiang, China
Discovery Chart Position: #908
Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis
(Ornamental horn face from Wucaiwan)Etymology
Hualianceratops is derived from the Chinese "Hua" (ornamental) and "lian" (face), referring to the texture found on most parts of the skull, and the Greek "ceras" (horned) and "-ops" (face).
The
species epithet,
wucaiwanensis, means "from Wucaiwan" in Latin.
ZooBank registry:
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:DEEB3095-CB69-47CD-91FC-2D01D9F429D5.
Discovery
The remains of
Hualianceratops were discovered in fluvial mudstones at Wucaiwan ("five color bay" in Chinese), in the same part of the Shishugou Formation as
Yinlong, Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China, by a joint expedition of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology and the George Washington University, in 2002.
The
holotype (IVPP V18641) includes skull and jaw bones, a nearly complete left foot, and some skeletal fragments.
Preparators
Xiang Lishi, Yu Tao, and Ding Xiaoqing.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian
Age range: 162-160 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
Hualianceratops
wucaiwanensis
References
• Han F, Forster CA, Clark JM and Xu X (2015) "
A New Taxon of Basal Ceratopsian from China and the Early Evolution of Ceratopsia".
PLoS ONE, 10(12): e0143369. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143369.
• Zhao X-J, Cheng Z-W, Xu X and Makovicky PJ (2006) " A new ceratopsian from the Upper Jurassic Houcheng Formation of Hebei, China".
Acta Geologica Sinica, 80(4): 467–473.
• Hu J, Forster CA, Xu X, Zhao Q, He Y and Han F (2022)
"Computed tomographic analysis of the dental system of three Jurassic ceratopsians and implications for the evolution of tooth replacement pattern and diet in early-diverging ceratopsians".
eLife, 11: e76676.
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.76676.
Time stands still for no man, and research is ongoing. If you spot an error, or want to expand, edit or add a dinosaur, please use
this form. Go
here to contribute to our FAQ.
All dinos are GM free, and no herbivores were eaten during site construction!
To cite this page:
Atkinson, L.
"
HUALIANCERATOPS :: from DinoChecker's dinosaur archive".
‹
http://www.dinochecker.com/dinosaurs/HUALIANCERATOPS›. Web access: 06th Mar 2026.
