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horned dinosaur · Doubtful name
Brachyceratops
Say it like this: “BRAK-i-SER-a-tops”
Brachyceratops montanensis
Brachyceratops ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United States.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1914 · Gilmore, C. W.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- the United States · Two Medicine
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- horned dinosaur · Ceratopsian
- Family branch
- Ceratopsidae
The story in short
In 1914, C. W. Gilmore published the name Brachyceratops.
Fossils referred to Brachyceratops date to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the Two Medicine Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
The fossils of Brachyceratops are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Ceratopsidae, among the horned dinosaurs.