Mosaiceratops

Mosaiceratops; Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
	Known material
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	†Ornithischia
Clade:	†Neornithischia
Clade:	†Ceratopsia
Clade:	†Neoceratopsia
Genus:	†Mosaiceratops; Zheng, Jin & Xu, 2015
Species:	†M. azumai
Binomial name
	†Mosaiceratops azumai; Zheng, Jin & Xu, 2015

Mosaiceratops is a genus of ceratopsian, described by Zheng, Jin & Xu in 2015 and found in the Xiaguan Formation of Neixiang County. Mosaiceratops lived in the upper Cretaceous in what is now the Henan Province of China.

Although phylogenetic analyses have found Mosaiceratops to be the most basal neoceratopsian, the authors noted that several features in the premaxilla and nasal bones are shared with Psittacosaurus, indicating that neoceratopsians evolved premaxillary teeth twice and that Psittacosaurus is not as primitive as previously thought.^[1]

^ Zheng, W., Jin, X., & Xu, X. (2015). A psittacosaurid-like basal neoceratopsian from the Upper Cretaceous of central China and its implications for basal ceratopsian evolution. Scientific reports, 5. article number 14190: 1-9; doi:10.1038/srep14190

[zhengetal15-1] Zheng, W., Jin, X., & Xu, X. (2015). A psittacosaurid-like basal neoceratopsian from the Upper Cretaceous of central China and its implications for basal ceratopsian evolution. Scientific reports, 5. article number 14190: 1-9; doi:10.1038/srep14190

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