who described it by comparing it to Saurolophus

suggests a versatile diet and the ability to process high-fiber plants

" and it's no coincidence: this animal is known for possessing one of the strangest mouth structures ever seen in a vertebrate

Snout-tail length 313 mm

adaptados para arrancar vegetación fibrosa

Machairoceratops cronusi Scale:1:60 who described it by comparingMachairoceratops cronusi is a basal ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the early Late Cretaceous , approximately 77 million years ago, in what is now southern Utah, USA. It was described in 2016 from fossil remains from the Wahweap Formation , a key geological unit for understanding the early diversification of ceratopsians in Laramidia. Its name means "bladed horned face," referring to the distinctive shape of its cranial ornamentation, while the