Dino 'graveyard' reveals first Asian triceratops

The first big discovery has already emerged from what has been called the world's largest dinosaur fossil site. In China's Shandong province, the 2-metre-long skull of a close relative of the famed horned dinosaur triceratops has been unearthed. It marks the first evidence that the group, called ceratopsids, ever lived outside western North America. Discovered last year in Zhucheng city, the Shandong deposit has already yielded more then 7600 fossils, according to Zhao Zijin of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing, making it one of the world's biggest dinosaur bone beds. Researchers have not dated the bones precisely, but say they come from the late Cretaceous - a period from 100 million to 65 million years ago that ended with the extinction of the dinosaurs.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16363-dino-graveyard-reveals-first-asian-triceratops-.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=life

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