Classification: Dinosauria – Ornithischia – Marginocephalia – Ceratopsia – Chaoyangsauridae
Time Period: Late Jurassic
Location: China
Diet: Herbivore
Xuanhuaceratops was a small, bipedal herbivore that scurried among the thick forests of Late Jurassic China, dodging predators by hiding in thick undergrowth and running speedily away on two legs. It’s known from four fragmentary skeletons, hinting at a family group. Though it looks alien compared to the later and famous ceratopsians of the Cretaceous Period, Xuanhuaceratops had already developed the classic sharp, cropping beak of the ceratopsians and had the beginnings of the neck frill that would become a trademark of Cretaceous ceratopsians.
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