Helioceratops

Helioceratops is a genus of herbivorous neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Middle Cretaceous of China.

In 2000 and 2002, at the Liufangzi site of China's eastern Jilin province, excavations took place during which the jaws were found of a ceratopsian new to science.

[1] The type species Helioceratops brachygnathus was named and described in 2009 by Jin Liyong, Chen Jun, Zan Shuqin and Pascal Godefroit.

Both fossils were discovered at a close distance from each other and indicate animals of about the same size; however, it could not be proven they belonged to a single individual.

The ramus or horizontal branch of the dentary is deep and short, the tooth row being but 60% longer than its maximal height.