Navajoceratops

{{Short description|Extinct genus of dinosaurs}}

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| image_caption = Holotype parietals from the front and back

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| authority = Fowler and Freedman Fowler, 2020

| type_species = {{extinct}}Navajoceratops sullivani

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Navajoceratops (meaning "Navajo horned face") is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America. The genus contains a single species, N. sullivani, named after Robert M. Sullivan, leader of the expeditions that recovered the holotype.{{cite journal |last1=Fowler |first1=D.W. |last2=Freedman Fowler |first2=E.A. |title=Transitional evolutionary forms in chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaurs: evidence from the Campanian of New Mexico |journal=PeerJ |date=2020 |volume=8 |page=e9251 |doi=10.7717/peerj.9251|pmid=32547873 |pmc=7278894 |doi-access=free }}

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The holotype specimen, SMP VP-1500, collected in 2002, consists of a partial skull. It was discovered in the Campanian Hunter Wash Member of the Kirtland Formation, New Mexico. It was informally named in 2016.{{cite web|url=https://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/13786|title=Dinosaurs and time: chronostratigraphic frameworks and their utility in analysis of dinosaur paleobiology|author=Denver Warwick Fowler|date=April 2016|website=scholarworks.montana.edu|access-date=17 February 2019}}

Navajoceratops was a member of the Chasmosaurinae. Alongside fellow chasmosaurine Terminocavus, also from the Kirtland Formation and described in the same paper, Navajoceratops was found to represent a stratigraphic and morphological intermediate between Pentaceratops and Anchiceratops. Navajoceratops was also found to be marginally less derived than Terminocavus.

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