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Sinoceratops
''Sinoceratops'' is a extinct genus of ceratopsian dinosaur that lived approximately 72 to 66 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period in what is now Shandong province in China. It was named in 2010 by Xu Xing ''et al.'' for three skulls from Zhucheng, China. Its name means "Chinese horned face from Zhucheng", after the location of its discovery.
''Sinoceratops'' was a medium sized, averagely-built, ground-dwelling, quadrupedal herbivore. It could grow up to an estimated long and high, and weigh up to . It was the first ceratopsid dinosaur discovered in China, and the only ceratopsid known from Asia. All other centrosaurines, and all chasmosaurines, are known from fossils discovered in North America, except for possibly ''Turanoceratops''. ''Sinoceratops'' is also significant because it is one of the largest known centrosaurines, and is much larger than any other known basal members of this group.
''Sinoceratops'' existed in the Xingezhuang Formation during the late Cretaceous. It lived alongside leptoceratopsids, saurolophines, and tyrannosaurines. The most common creature in the formation was ''Shantungosaurus'', to whom most of the material has been assigned to. The animals living alongside ''Sinoceratops'' and ''Shantungosaurus'' were ''Zhuchengceratops'', ''Huaxiaosaurus'', and ''Zhuchengtyrannus''.
==Etymology==
The genus name ''Sinoceratops'', means "Chinese horned face", and is derived from the word "Sino-" referring the China, the country of its discovery and the Greek words "keras" (κερας) meaning "horn", and "ops" (ωψ) meaning "face". ''Sinoceratops'' was described and named by paleontologist Xu Xing and colleagues, in 2010. The type species is ''S. zhuchengensis'', named for the location of its discovery.
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