Liaoceratops
Field photograph to come
Liaoceratops
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- Lived
- 126 to 120 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Xu et al. 2002
Field notes
About Liaoceratops
Liaoceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 126 to 120 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Liaoceratops, from China. Its fossils come from the Yixian Formation. It was named by Xu et al. in 2002.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
125 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Neoceratopsia.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: X. Xu, P. J. Makovicky, and X.-l. Wang, M. A. Norell, H.-l. You. 2002. A ceratopsian dinosaur from China and the early evolution of the Ceratopsia. Nature 416:314-317