Scientists find new species of horned dinosaur Scientists find new species of horned dinosaur

The new species belonging to the ceratopsia family was found in the same fossil beds in China’s Xinjiang province where the robust and heavily built Hualianceratops was discovered in 2002 by the same team. The findings were published in the journal PLOS ONE.

• The team led by James Clark, Ronald Weintraub associate professor of biology at the George Washington University and Xu Xing, professor at the Chinese cademy of Sciences.

About new species of dinosaur :

• Finding these two species in the same fossil beds reveals there was morediversity there than previously recognised.
• The ceratopsian dinosaurs already had diversified into at least four lineages by the beginning of the Jurassic Period.
• Hualianceratops lived approximately 160 million years ago