Genus: Lokiceratops LOEWEN, SERTICH, SAMPSON, O’CONNOR, CARPENTER, SISSON, ØHLENSCHLÆGER, FARKE, MAKOVICKY, LONGRICH & EVANS, 2024
Etymology: In reference to the god Loki from Norse Mythology and Latinized Greek, ceratops, 'horned-face": Loki's horned face.
Species: rangiformis LOEWEN, SERTICH, SAMPSON, O’CONNOR, CARPENTER, SISSON, ØHLENSCHLÆGER, FARKE, MAKOVICKY, LONGRICH & EVANS, 2024
Etymology: In reference to the bilateral asymmetry of fritll ornamentations, similar to the asymmetry in antlers of the reindeer/caribou genus Rangifer.
Holotype: EMK 0012
Locality: Loki Quarry, Kennedy Coulee, south of the Milk River, Hill County, northern Montana.
Note: Exact coordinates are avaiable at the Evolutionsmuseet, Knuthenborg, Maribo, Denmark, and the Natural Histroy Museum of Utah, United States of America.
Horizon: Lower Judith Formation, Middle Judith River Group.
Note: Correlates to the McCelland Ferry Member to the south, and the lower part of the Oldman Formation of Southern Alberta, 3.6 km to the north.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Judith Age, Middle Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material: Disarticulated skull and partial skeleton; rostral, premaxillae, maxillae, nasals, lacrimals, jugals, frontals, palpebrals, postorbitals, squamosals, parietals, left pterygoid, a partial braincae, cervical vertebra, right scapula and coracoid, both ischia and the sacrum with attached sacrodorsals and sacrocaudals, an anterior free caudal vertebrae and a chevron from the proximal tail.
Lokiceratops rangiformis skull modified from LOEWEN, SERTICH, SAMPSON, O’CONNOR, CARPENTER, SISSON, ØHLENSCHLÆGER, FARKE, MAKOVICKY, LONGRICH & EVANS, 2024; A) dorsal; B) right; C) left; D) anterior; and E) posterior views.
Lokiceratops rangiformis skeleton modified from LOEWEN, SERTICH, SAMPSON, O’CONNOR, CARPENTER, SISSON, ØHLENSCHLÆGER, FARKE, MAKOVICKY, LONGRICH & EVANS, 2024