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[dinosaur] Yehuecauhceratops, new centrosaurine ceratopsid from Mexico





Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com


A new paper:



Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva, Eberhard Frey, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, José Rubén Guzmán-Gutiérrez & Arturo H. González-González (2017)
Mexican ceratopsids: Considerations on their diversity and evolution.
Journal of South American Earth Sciences (advance online publication)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2017.01.008
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895981116302917


During the past decade, three new endemic taxa of ceratopsian ornithischians have been described from Mexico. Apparently, this group experienced a regional diversification in this area. To date Mexican Ceratopsia are represented by three species, one of which is a centrosaurine and two are chasmosaurines. Here we provide a critical review on Mexican ceratopsians and formally name a new centrosaurine ceratopsid species from the Aguja Formation as Yehuecauhceratops mudei. We also discuss possible causes for the rapid endemic diversification of Mexican ceratopsians.


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This appears to be the second new dinosaur for 2017, after Magnamanus.