Liaoceratops

Field photograph to come

DV-0502Yixian Fm., China

Liaoceratops

DV-0502

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

2 finds

125 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: 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