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Zuniceratops Dinosaur   Zuniceratops (Zuni-horned dinosaur) was
exposed in 1996 by 8 year old Christopher James Wolfe, son of
paleontologist Douglas G. Wolfe, in the Moreno Hill Formation in
New Mexico, USA. One skull and the bones from more than a few
individuals have been found.  Zuniceratops Dinosaur Zuniceratops
appears to have been approximately 10-11 feet long (three to 3.5
meters) and three feet tall (one meter) at the hips. It almost
certainly weighed 200 to 250 pounds (100 to 150 kilograms). The
frill at the back its head was fenestrated, but lacking
exoccipitals. It is the earliest-known ceratopsian to have
eyebrow horns. This set of horns is consideration to have grown
much larger with age.  Zuniceratops is an example of the
evolutionary transition between early ceratopsians such as
Protoceratops and the later, better ceratopsians that had very
large horns and frills. This ropes to theory that the lineage of
ceratopsian dinosaurs may ha