Spinops

Spinops is an extinct genus of centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, southern Canada.

None of this material was found in articulation, however it was all closely associated in the same bone bed, in the northwestern region ("Steveville Badlands") of the Dinosaur Provincial Park.

In a letter to Charles H. Sternberg, English paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward of the British Museum called the Spinops material "nothing but rubbish".

[3] The precise whereabouts of the bonebed that yielded the fossils is unknown due to poor field record keeping, but Darren Tanke of the Royal Tyrrell Museum is spearheading attempts at its relocation.

[1] The cladogram presented below follows a recent phylogenetic analysis by Chiba et al. (2017):[5] Diabloceratops eatoni Machairoceratops cronusi Avaceratops lammersi (ANSP 15800)

Partial skull in left side, front, and upper views
Restoration
Squamosal and holotype parietal