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Sinoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian that lived in China during the Late Cretaceous, living about 72-66 million years ago.
Sinoceratops is a very significant centrosaur because not only it is the first ceratopsid to be ever discovered in China, but it is also one of the largest centrosaurines ever discovered. It lived alongside Shantungosaurus, Zhuchengtyrannus, and Zhuchengceratops.
Like most centrosaurs, Sinoceratops had a single nasal horn and no horns above its eyebrows. However, what distinguishes this ceratopsian is its frill pattern, which is a series of forward-curving frill horns that run around the top of the frill. There is also a series of low set knobs on the top of the frill, which is not seen in any other known ceratopsian.
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Sinoceratops was cloned by Ingen 2014 during the time of Jurassic World. However, the exact attraction in which it was included is unknown, as the Ceratopsian was not mentioned in any official promotional material for the park.
Perhaps some were in the Gyrosphere, as shown in the third episode of first season of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous.
Shortly after the Jurassic World Incident in 2015, a Sinoceratops was hunted by the big game hunter Mitch, who kept his groomed head in his tent as a trophy.
A while after, several Sinoceratops were among the dinosaurs in the stampede attempting to escape the Scorpios rex. One bumped aside an empty Gyrosphere with a Stegosaurus, while another fatally crashed headfirst into a large rock that Sammy Gutierrez and Brooklynn were hiding behind.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
It is revealed that there are surviving Sinoceratops populations remaining on Isla Nublar after the 2015 Incident, but will now face an impending danger, alongside many other creatures, in the form of an erupting volcano. These clones look incredibly similar to their real life counterparts except the clones has its fenestrae exposed on the living creature, which no ceratopsian had, a taller frill, is much larger than the original, being 8.1 meters (26.57 feet) instead of 6 meters (20 feet) when fully grown, has a dew claw on the back legs, and two spikes on the center of the frill similar to that of a Pachyrhinosaurus. Its body color is a bright forest green with a white underside. There is white on the face, a circular orange, white and green pattern beneath the holes in the frill and on the sides of the frill. It also has white with black tipped spikes.
Carnotaurus fighting a Sinoceratops
The Sinoceratops is first seen licking a paralyzed Owen Grady before being scared off by some approaching lava.
While multiple Sinoceratops were seen during the stampede, the only major appearance of it is when a Carnotaurus grabs one that had lagged behind the stampede. After a brief fight, the Sinoceratops is able to break away and flee with the other dinosaurs.
Several Sinoceratops were captured by Ken Wheatley and his mercenaries, and they were last seen escaping the Lockwood Manor along with many other dinosaurs.
The remaining Sinoceratops continue to roam the wilds of the U.S.A.
Jurassic World: Dominion
Sinoceratops will return in Jurassic World: Dominion.
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Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous
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- It was meant to be Pachyrhinosaurus in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, but it was later changed to Sinoceratops after the first trailer was released. This is likely the reason as to why the Mattel toy looks more similar to Pachyrhinosaurus than to Sinoceratops.[1][2]
- At one point, the holes in the frill were instead meant to be only in one individual and were meant to be a wound rather than being part of the clone's biology. This appears to be a reference to the film Walking with Dinosaurs, where the main character, Patchi the Pachyrhinosaurus, gets a similar frill wound from a Troodon bite.
- The scene where the Sinoceratops licked Owen in the face after being double-crossed by Wheatley is influenced by a brief moment from a chapter in The Lost World titled "Heat", where a Stegosaurus licked Sarah Harding in a similar manner after she was betrayed by Lewis Dodgson.
- At quite a few moments throughout the film, Pachycephalosaurus sound effects from The Lost World: Jurassic Park were reused for the Sinoceratops.
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| Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Dinosaurs |
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| Allosaurus • Ankylosaurus • Apatosaurus • Baryonyx • Brachiosaurus • Carnotaurus • Compsognathus • Gallimimus • Indoraptor • Mosasaurus • Parasaurolophus • Pteranodon • Sinoceratops • Stegosaurus • Stygimoloch • Triceratops • Tyrannosaurus rex • Velociraptor |
| Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Dinosaurs |
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| Ankylosaurus • Baryonyx • Brachiosaurus • Carnotaurus • Ceratosaurus • Compsognathus • Dilophosaurus • Dimorphodon • Gallimimus • Indominus rex • Kentrosaurus • Monolophosaurus • Mosasaurus • Ouranosaurus • Parasaurolophus • Parasaurolophus lux • Pteranodon • Scorpios rex • Sinoceratops • Smilodon • Spinoceratops • Spinosaurus • Stegosaurus • Tyrannosaurus rex • Velociraptor |
