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Nasutoceratops

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Name: Nasutoceratops ‭(‬large nosed horned face‭)‬.

Phonetic: Na-su-to-seh-ra-tops.

Named By: S.‭ ‬D.‭ ‬Sampson,‭ ‬E.‭ ‬K.‭ ‬Lund,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬A.‭ ‬Loewen,‭ ‬A.‭ ‬A.‭ ‬Farke‭ & ‬K.‭ ‬E.‭ ‬Clayton‭ ‬-‭ ‬2013.

Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Reptilia,‭ ‬Dinosauria,‭ ‬Ornithischia,‭ ‬Ceratopsidae,‭ ‬Centrosaurinae.

Species: N.‭ ‬titusi‭ (‬type‭)‬.

Diet: Herbivore.

Size: Skull about‭ ‬1.5‭ ‬meters long. Body length roughly estimated to be about 4.8 meters long.

Known locations: USA,‭ ‬Utah‭ ‬-‭ ‬Kaiparowits Formation.

Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.

Fossil representation: Skull and partial post cranial remains.

      Nasutoceratops was the second genus of centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur to be discovered in the south west of the USA,‭ ‬the first genus being Diabloceratops that was named three years earlier.‭ ‬Back in the Cretaceous the South-west of what is now the USA was the southern portion of Laramidia,‭ ‬an island landmass extending‭ ‬from‭ ‬Canada all the way to Mexico,‭ ‬and isolated from Appalachia‭ (‬modern day eastern USA‭) ‬by the western interior seaway.‭ ‬It is possible that the reason why‭ ‬centrosaurine‭ ‬ceratopsian dinosaurs were not as common in southern Laramidia than they were in the North may well be because of geological barriers that prevented ceratopsian dinosaurs from spreading south.‭ ‬If correct then this would have resulted in isolated populations that may have begun evolving features differently because of a more limited gene pool.

      Hailing from the Kaiparowits Formation,‭ ‬Nasutoceratops would have shared its habitat with chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaurs such as Kosmoceratops and Utahceratops,‭ ‬as well as hadrosaurs such as Gryposaurus and Parasaurolophus.‭ ‬Potential predators included theropods like the troodontid Talos but particularly tyrannosaurs such as Teratophoneus.