Dinosaurs · Ceratopsian

Zuniceratops

Say it zoo-nee-serra-tops. The name means ‘Zuni (the name of a tribe of Indigenous People in the USA) horned-face’.

No length given in the museum's record.

The museum gives no length for this dinosaur, so we cannot draw it to scale.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of ceratopsians

Diet: Plant-eater
When: Late Cretaceous94 to 89 million years ago
Fossils found in: USA
Named by: Wolfe and Kirkland (1998)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Ceratopsia › Neoceratopsia › Coronosauria

Where Zuniceratops sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Ceratopsians. Horned and frilled plant-eaters, such as Triceratops. See all 29

Lived at the same time

Nothronychus · same country
Brachylophosaurus · same country
Eolambia · same country
Oryctodromeus · same country
Protohadros · same country
Sauropelta · same country
Achillobator
Aralosaurus

Other ceratopsians

Graciliceratops Late Cretaceous
Microceratus Late Cretaceous
Bagaceratops Late Cretaceous
Micropachycephalosaurus Late Cretaceous
Achelousaurus Late Cretaceous
Udanoceratops Late Cretaceous
Albertaceratops Late Cretaceous
Avaceratops Late Cretaceous

Source: Zuniceratops in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.