Sinoceratops
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Ornithischia |
| Infraorder: | Ceratopsia |
| Family: | Ceratopsidae |
| Subfamily: | Centrosaurinae |
| Genus: | Sinoceratops Xu et al., 2010 |
Sinoceratops, whose name means 'horned face from China', was a very large ceratopsian dinosaur. The dinosaur used to live in what is now China during the Upper Cretaceous. Sinoceratops is an ancestor of Styracosaurus and Centrosaurus. The head of a full-grown Sinoceratops was probably about 1.8 metres (5.9 ft) long.
