Breviceratops
Field photograph to come
Breviceratops
DV-0333 · type species Breviceratops kozlowskii
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Protoceratopsidae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Kurzanov 1990
Field notes
About Breviceratops
Breviceratops 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 1 find of Breviceratops, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Baruungoyot Formation. It was named by Kurzanov in 1990.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Protoceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. M. Kurzanov. 1990. A new Late Cretaceous protoceratopsid genus from Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 1990(4):85-91