Bagaceratops
Field photograph to come
Bagaceratops
DV-0228 · type species Bagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 1 m (3 ft)
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Protoceratopsidae
- Found in
- Mongolia and China
- Named by
- Maryanska and Osmólska 1975
Field notes
About Bagaceratops
Bagaceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Protoceratopsidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 16 finds of Bagaceratops, from Mongolia and China. Its fossils come from rocks including the Baruungoyot Formation, the Djadokhta Formation and the Bayan Mandahu Formation. It was named by Maryanska and Osmólska in 1975.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
To scale
How big was Bagaceratops?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Protoceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: T. Maryanska and H. Osmólska. 1975. Protoceratopsidae (Dinosauria) of Asia. Palaeontologica Polonica 33:133-181