Gremlin slobodorum. Image credit: Ddinodan / Sci.News.
SciNews has a post about a new dinosaur from Canada. Gremlin slobodorum lived about 77 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period. It's a leptoceratopsid, which is a hornless dinosaur related to Triceratops. The animal lived what is now southern Alberta, Canada. The dinosaur was described in "A new Late Cretaceous leptoceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada", which was published in "Windows into Sauropsid and Synapsid Evolution".
These dinosaurs differed from Triceratops and other ceratopsids in lacking horns on its face and only having a small frill extending from behind its head.
“Unlike the better known ceratopsid ceratopsians, leptoceratopsids were relatively small — mostly around sheep-sized — and lacked horns,” said Carleton University dinosaur paleontologist Michael Ryan and his colleagues.
“Although it is very incompletely known, Gremlin slobodorum can be distinguished from other leptoceratopsids by the presence of a ridge running across the top of each frontal.”
