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Ceratopsians are a group of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their horned faces
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- plural of ceratopsian
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Ceratopsians are easily recognized by features of the skull.
They include the pachycephalosaurians and ceratopsians.
We call ceratopsians with a nasal horn and.
Ojoceratops and several other ceratopsians rival them in size.
All ceratopsians became extinct at the end of this era.
We also know that ceratopsians had scaly skin.
All ceratopsians became extinct at the end of this period.
It is one of the few ceratopsians known from this period.
But it does have a few features that we find in all ceratopsians.
The frills of ceratopsians are incredibly diverse.
Carbonized plant remains might have belonged to hadrosaurus or ceratopsians.
Many of the ceratopsians also had horns over their eyes.
Pointed beak are each a shared derived character of all the ceratopsians.
Zuniceratops was a herbivore like other ceratopsians and was probably a herd animal as well.
However, these features help understand a major split in the evolution of ceratopsians.
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Eotriceratops differs from other chasmosaurine ceratopsians in unique features of the skull bones.
The skin of ceratopsians consisted of large polygonal scales, sometimes with scattered circular plates.
Examples of contemporary local ceratopsians include Einiosaurus.
A member of the family Chaoyangsauridae, it was one of the earliest ceratopsians.
These facts indicate that some ceratopsians were the dominant herbivores in their environments.
There is plentiful evidence for gregarious behaviour among herbivorous dinosaurs, including ceratopsians and hadrosaurs.
The clade Neoceratopsia includes all ceratopsians more derived than psittacosaurids.
Ceratopsians and Pachycephalosaurus appear for the first time, and.
Pachycephalosaurs are today grouped with the horned ceratopsians in the group Marginocephalia.
Pachycephalosaurs and ceratopsians show clear evidence of multiple bidirectional dispersion events across Beringa.
The exact location of Triceratops among the ceratopsians has been debated over the years.
Simple, branched, feather-like structures are known from heterodontosaurids, primitive neornithischians and theropods, and primitive ceratopsians.
Psittacosaurids were basal to almost all known ceratopsians except Yinlong and perhaps the Chaoyangsauridae.
In 2010, Hunt and Farke pointed out that this was mainly true for centrosaurine ceratopsians.
All other described ceratopsians are known from the later Cretaceous Period.
There have been several cladistic studies performed on basal ceratopsians since 2000.
Later in their evolution, ceratopsians evolved a nose horn and.
Triceratops are by far the best-known ceratopsians to the general public.
It preserves fossils of plants, hadrosaurs, ceratopsians and tyrannosaurs dating back to the Cretaceous period.
Titanoceratops shows that large-bodied ceratopsians evolved earlier than thought.
