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horned dinosaur
Beg
Say it like this: “beg”
Beg tse
Beg ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous · Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Mongolia.
- When
- Early Cretaceous · Late Cretaceous (Albian · Cenomanian) · roughly 113.2 to 93.9 million years ago
- Named in
- 2020 · Yu, C.; Prieto-Márquez, A.; Chinzorig, T.; Badamkhatan, Z.; Norell, M.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 1 m · 3 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Mongolia · Ulaanoosh
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- horned dinosaur · Ceratopsian
- Family branch
- Neoceratopsia
The story in short
In 2020, C. Yu and colleagues published the name Beg. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Beg date to the Early Cretaceous · Late Cretaceous (Albian · Cenomanian), roughly 113.2 to 93.9 million years ago. Finds come from Mongolia, including the Ulaanoosh Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Beg at a length near 1 m.
On the family tree it sits in Neoceratopsia, among the horned dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Aquilops
Aquilops americanus
Early Cretaceous (Albian) · roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago
Archaeoceratops
Archaeoceratops oshimai
Early Cretaceous (Aptian · Albian) · roughly 121.4 to 100.5 million years ago
Asiaceratops
Asiaceratops salsopaludalis
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago