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horned dinosaur
Breviceratops
Say it like this: “BREV-i-SER-a-tops”
Breviceratops kozlowskii
Breviceratops ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Mongolia.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1990 · Kurzanov, S. M.
- Hip height
- 0.1 m · 0 ft
- Length
- 0.2 m · 1 ft
- Weight
- 0 kg · 1 lb
- Found in
- Mongolia · Baruungoyot
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- horned dinosaur · Ceratopsian
- Family branch
- Protoceratopsidae
The story in short
In 1990, S. M. Kurzanov published the name Breviceratops. The name means “short horned face.”
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Mongolia, including the Baruungoyot Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Breviceratops at a length near 0.2 m, hips about 0.1 m high, and a body mass around 0 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Protoceratopsidae, among the horned dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Bagaceratops
Bagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Bainoceratops
Bainoceratops efremovi
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Protoceratops
Protoceratops andrewsi
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago