Hungarian Fossils Challenge Dinosaur History
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At a glance
- Scientists have rewritten the understanding of horned dinosaur distribution in europe with the discovery of a remarkably complete ceratopsian fossil in western Hungary.
- The fossil belongs to the genus Ajkaceratops kozmai, a herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period.
Scientists have rewritten the understanding of horned dinosaur distribution in europe with the discovery of a remarkably complete ceratopsian fossil in western Hungary. The find provides the clearest evidence yet that these dinosaurs - a group famously represented by Triceratops – weren’t limited to Asia and North America,as previously believed.
The fossil belongs to the genus Ajkaceratops kozmai, a herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period. It lived approximately 84-85 million years ago in prehistoric Europe, a time when much of the continent was an archipelago of islands within the ancient Tethys Sea.