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It's either way a perspective-error I did here or probably I were distracted by the relative long necks of derived Neoceratopsia. The lack of an actual good skeleton took it's part into it as well.
Nonetheless thank you for the constructive critique and the support with references.
Also "if" this animal's neck is based more or less on the derived neoceratopsians, it could be slightly more problematic in your illustration, since in most if not all neoceratopsians (except for maybe protoceratops, juvenile stages) the first few cervicals (three or four) are fused and forms a syncervical, even if these elements are not fused together these elements are very much immobile ([link] , [link] and [link] . I didn't use anything more derived neoceratopsians as examples because proportionally they are drastically different.). If such structure (syncervical) is present then your animal would have quite a stiff neck proximally (ceratopsids generally have 10 cervicals altogether and about one third of them are "fused".) which would make bending 90 degrees of its head more difficult. I probably haven't seen enough ceratopsians specimen (either photos or mounts) because I can't think of a derived neoceratopsian that has relatively long neck (I have a quick search on the web, maybe you are thinking about animal like this one [link]) however, if you look closely you will find that just like the other neoceratopsians , about a third of its neck is fused, and the head on this mount doesn't really attached to its neck. Perhaps you have a better example somewhere unfortunately I just couldn't find it on the web...
I'll ask Yoult