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Judiceratops tigris

Judiceratops tigris is a horned dinosaur from the Campanian of the Judith River Formation in Montana. It's a reasonably common animal there- four specimens are known- but unfortunately all of them are highly incomplete. Never the less, there is enough of the parietal- the diagnostic bit of the animal- to show that it's a new species. The back of the frill is broadly arched and has very low hornlets; the hornlets on the side of the frill become much larger towards the front, with large, ear-shaped hornlets at the front of the squamosals.

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