Ischioceratops zhuchengensis - nowy leptoceratopsyd z z Chin. Drugi, ale nie ostatni przedstawiciel Leptoceratopsidae z Zhucheng - niebawem należy spodziewać się kolejnego dinozaura z tej grupy (i z tego miejsca), na podstawie bardziej kompletnego szkieletu. Niewykluczone, że
Ischioceratops i
Zhuchengceratops są tym samym zwierzęciem, tylko z niepokrywającym się materiałem.
Yiming He, Peter J. Makovicky, Kebai Wang, Shuqing Chen, Corwin
Sullivan, Fenglu Han & Xing Xu (2015)
A New Leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) with a Unique Ischium
from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China.
PLoS ONE 10(12): e0144148
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144148
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl ... ne.0144148
EDIT:
The holotype of Ischioceratops was found at approximately the same stratigraphic level within the Kugou quarry as the holotype specimen of Zhuchengceratops, raising the question of whether the two specimens may be conspecific. Unfortunately, there are no overlapping skeletal elements between the two specimens. It depends on the recovery of overlapping material and future discoveries. Zhuchengceratops was recovered by our phylogenetic analysis has a close relationship with Ichioceratops in Leptoceratopsidae. Therefore, we provisionally consider Ischioceratops and Zhuchengceratops to be distinct taxa, although we acknowledge that future discoveries might reveal them to be synonymous.