This Is NOT Avaceratops! - Newest Horned Dinosaur Could Be Most Dangerous Herbivore Of Its Time....

By the end of the Cretaceous period - a chunk of time that lasted from around 145 to 66 million years ago, plenty of dinosaur lineages had gone extinct. The general biodiversity of dinosaurs and the other weird critters they lived with had been shaken up many times. The hadrosaurs were the most common large-bodied herbivorous animals across much of the world. Titanosaurian sauropods were the only things bigger but were much more common in the southern hemisphere. The ceratopsians, or horned dinosaurs, were also among the most diverse and common animals worldwide throughout the Cretaceous period. Their near ubiquity means that learning more about them also means learning more about the changes in biodiversity of terrestrial ecosystems over time and how stable certain ecologies were over deep time, leading up to the space-rock impact.
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Ishikawa, H., Tsuihiji, T., Manabe, M., Furcatoceratops elucidans, a new centrosaurine (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the upper Campanian Judith River Formation, Montana, USA., Cretaceous Research, doi.org/10.101....
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[@johnwright-b2l]

Furcatopceratops looks like another interesting character of the ceratopsian family tree in the fossil record.

[@bennydelarosa9064]

There are so many ceratopsians in North America. It's sometimes hard to keep up with them.

[@Dinoramascuplts-Tyrex]

I just painted this guy on my channel… I love these ones

[@johnwright-b2l]

Dakosaurus seems like another interesting character of the fossil record.

[@earth5853]

Why are there so many ceratopsians in North America then in South America, Africa or even Australia?

[@jessehutchings]

Bc North America kicks ass duh

[@earth5853]

@@jessehutchings RAHHHH🎆🎆🎆🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[@concamon1364]

I can't even think of an Asian ceratopsian outside of Protoceratops and Psittacosaurus Maybe the ecosystems in those regions didn't have a niche for large ceratopsids? Or more likely, they just haven't preserved well

[@earth5853]

@@concamon1364 what about sinoceratops?

[@grobanlover292]

General answer is the environment. Sarah Thompson seem to have flourished in densely wooded, wet environments with a lot of terrain to hide in and push through, with their large skulls making that easy, and lots of food for them to pick through with their narrow beaks. While ceratopsians definitely had their start in asia, and there have been some species who made it big in that region, the North American environment with the teeth over much of the Great Plains provided the perfect set of circumstances for this group to thrive. I'm sure there's other reasons you could go into as well, but that is a general answer.

[@RiddleBoxBree]

lol even fossil preperations c an be physically demanding

[@dymmydumb5432]

Plenty of other dinosaurs or any creatures have very miniscule difference, where sometimes I question whether or not they're really different species or if the scientists are to excited to discover new species. Well not with ceratopsians fortunately

[@EDGEscience]

It's best to be very familiar with the diagnostic traits used to name a new genus before having an opinion ☝️🤓

[@dymmydumb5432]

@@EDGEscience oh yeah you're right now that I rethink about it. How they try to find the key things that a genus would have.. what I meant was compared to other dinosaur groups the difference between kinds of ceratopsians are way more striking and dramatic. I might confuse apatosaurus from Brontosaurus or trex from tarbosaurus at first glance. But I wouldn't confuse nasutoceratops from pachyrhinosaurus

[@Eloraurora]

It's kind of cyclical. You get a phase of 'splitters' who define a ton of different species, and then a phase of 'lumpers' who are skeptical that all of them are distinct enough to qualify. Like the Bone Wars vs. the Pachycephalosaurus/Stygimoloch/Dracorex life stage smooshing.

[@terrysyvertson9205]

i wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being discovered that both furcatoceratops and avaceratops are young nasutoceratops

[@maximosaurus042nd]

The Isle of is not dead. That’s not nice to say. 😕

[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

Why don’t you think of a suggestion making a KZbin Videos all about Dakosaurus, the “Biter Lizard”, an Extinct Prehistoric Metriorhyncid (the Marine Crocodile) the “Godzilla” of the Jurassic and the Cretaceous Seas on on the Epoch Now coming up next?!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍👍👍

[@brianedwards7142]

Just the right size to slap a saddle on and ride.

[@tomd6704]

As are you. But its amazing how we cannot see a creature without thinking how do I dominate it or use it? I hope you do not mind being considered likewise.

[@РоманКарле-м4ы]

Приветствуйте нового члена рогатой семьи - furcatoceratops 🎉🎉🎉

[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

Why don’t you think of a suggestion making a KZbin Videos all about Dakosaurus, the “Biter Lizard”, an Extinct Prehistoric Metriorhyncid (the Marine Crocodile) of the Jurassic and the Cretaceous Seas on on the Edge Science coming up next?!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍👍👍

[@reeyees50]

Didnt you make a video on a ceratopsian less than 24hours ago? Um, wouldn't it be better to space these videos out

[@indosomni]

no views in 40 seconds? damn edge fell off