Xenoceratops: Dinosaur of the Day

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#Xenoceratops
Centrosaurine ceratopsid that lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Alberta, Canada (Foremost Formation)
Herbivorous
Probably had a parrot-like or turtle-like beak
Estimated to be about 20 ft (6 m) long (hard to know for sure based on fossils currently found) and weighed about 2 tons
Had a large frill
Had two thick knobs that projected out the middle of the frill (on the top). Next to each knob was a long spike that pointed outwards and back
No bumps or other ornamentation in the midline of the frill
Probably had nasal and brow horns like other centrosaurines
Possibly had large brow horns (based on a specimen housed at the Royal Tyrrell that hasn't been officially described, but possibly belongs to Xenoceratops)
Probably had a long, low, nasal bone, similar to Medusaceratops, based on the fragment found
Type and only species: Xenoceratops foremostensis
Fossils found in 1958 by Wann Langston, Jr., who found skull fragments near Foremost, Alberta, Canada
Fossils found in a bone bed (described as a low diversity bone bed)
Fragments stored at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, and then in 2003 David Evans and Michael Ryan started looking at the fossils (one was a spike, the other an unusually large socket), and analyzed them more thoroughly in 2009
Not many dinosaurs known from the formation (mostly teeth, some hadrosaur skeletons and pachycephalosaurid Colepiocephale)
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