Archaeoceratops
Field photograph to come
Archaeoceratops
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- Lived
- 121 to 110 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 1.3 m (4 ft)
- Group
- Ceratopsians
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Dong and Azuma 1997
Field notes
About Archaeoceratops
Archaeoceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 121 to 110 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 3 finds of Archaeoceratops, from China. Its fossils come from rocks including the Zhonggou Formation and the Xiagou Formation. It was named by Dong and Azuma in 1997.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
115 million years ago
To scale
How big was Archaeoceratops?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Neoceratopsia.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: Z. Dong and Y. Azuma. 1997. On a primitive neoceratopsian from the Early Cretaceous of China. Sino-Japanese Silk Road Dinosaur Expedition. China Ocean Press, Beijing