Mojoceratops

Remains of the hippo-sized creature, formally designated "Mojoceratops" by its Yale

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Later searches in the collections of Canadian museums turned up other Mojoceratops individuals that had been incorrectly grouped with closely related dinosaurs.

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Related to the well-known Triceratops - which also sported elaborate headgear to attract members of the opposite sex - but appearing some 10 million years earlier than its familiar plant-eating cousin, Mojoceratops is believed to have existed for only about one million years before vanishing from the fossil record.

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The full name of the newly identified species - Mojoceratops perifania - includes the Greek term perifania (meaning "pride"), ceras (Greek for "horn") and ops (Greek for "face").

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Over a few beers with fellow paleontologists one night, he blurted out the first thing that came to mind: Mojoceratops.

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"I tried to come up with serious names after that, but Mojoceratops just sort of stuck."

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While all ceratopsids have frills on the tops of their skulls, "Mojoceratops is the most ostentatious," Longrich said, adding that their frill is also the most heart-shaped of all the related species.

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A plant eater about the size of a hippopotamus, Mojoceratops appeared about 75 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous - 10 million years earlier than its well-known cousin, the Triceratops.

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Longrich named the newly discovered dinosaur species Mojoceratops after its flamboyant, heart-shaped skull.

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