Graciliceratops

Field photograph to come

DV-0461Baynshire Fm., Mongolia

Graciliceratops

DV-0461 · type species Graciliceratops mongoliensis

Lived
101 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Ceratopsians
Found in
Mongolia
Named by
Sereno 2000

Field notes

About Graciliceratops

Graciliceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 84 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Graciliceratops, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Baynshire Formation. It was named by Sereno in 2000.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

90 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Neoceratopsia.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. C. Sereno. 2000. The fossil record, systematics and evolution of pachycephalosaurs and ceratopsians from Asia. The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia