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horned dinosaur
Udanoceratops
Say it like this: “oo-DAHN-o-SER-a-tops”
Udanoceratops tschizhovi
Udanoceratops 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
- 1992 · Kurzanov, S. M.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 4 m · 13 ft
- Weight
- 700 kg · 1,543 lb
- Found in
- Mongolia · Djadokhta
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- horned dinosaur · Ceratopsian
- Family branch
- Leptoceratopsidae
The story in short
Udanoceratops was formally named in 1992 by S. M. Kurzanov. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Udanoceratops date to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Mongolia, including the Djadokhta Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Udanoceratops at a length near 4 m and a body mass around 700 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Leptoceratopsidae, among the horned dinosaurs.