Pronunciation: NA-vuh-ho-SEH-ruh-tops
Meaning: Navajo horned face
Author/s: Fowler and Freedman Fowler (2020)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: New Mexico, USA
Acta Ordinal: #1031
Navajoceratops sullivani
(Sullivan's Navajo Horned Face)Etymology
Navajoceratops is derived from "Navajo" (after the Navajo people indigenous to the San Juan Basin), and the Greek "ceras" (horn) and "ops" (face). The species epithet, sullivani, honours Dr. Robert M. Sullivan, leader of the SMP expeditions to the San Juan Basin that recovered the holotype. ZooBank registry: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:038D3DF1-DB41-48AF-9791-14C846971133.
Discovery
The remains of Navajoceratops were discovered at "Denver's Blowout" (SMP locality 281) in the Hunter Wash Member of the Kirtland Formation, Ahshislepah Wash, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, by Robert M. Sullivan, Denver W. Fowler, Justin A. Spielmann, and Arjan Boere in 2002.
The holotype (SMP VP-1500) is a partial fragmentary skull, collected as weathered surface material.
