Udanoceratops
Field photograph to come
Udanoceratops
DV-0353 · type species Udanoceratops tschizhovi
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Leptoceratopsidae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Kurzanov 1992
Field notes
About Udanoceratops
Udanoceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Leptoceratopsidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Udanoceratops, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Djadokhta Formation. It was named by Kurzanov in 1992.
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 Leptoceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. M. Kurzanov. 1992. A gigantic protoceratopsid from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 26(3):103-116