Liaoceratops

In Depth        Liaoceratops was a fairly small neoceratopsian dinosaur that is nonetheless a good example of‭ ‬the ancestors of the later and larger ceratopsian dinosaurs such as Triceratops and Styracosaurus that lived during the late Cretaceous.‭ ‬Liaoceratops had the beginnings of a neck frill,‭ ‬though nothing like the same scale as later descendants,‭ ‬and no … Read more

Bagaceratops

In Depth        A relative of the world famous Protoceratops,‭ ‬Bagaceratops is unusual in that it is more primitive,‭ ‬yet appeared later.‭ ‬Bagaceratops seems to have been like other small ceratopsids of its kind,‭ ‬though most of the post cranial skeleton is still unknown.‭ ‬Bagaceratops would have cropped plants with its beak while also keeping an … Read more

Yueosaurus

In Depth        First discovered in‭ ‬1998‭ ‬when a road construction uncovered the remains,‭ ‬it took a team of palaeontologists all the way to‭ ‬2012‭ ‬to publish a description about this dinosaur.‭ ‬Yueosaurus is regarded as being a basal ornithopod dinosaur,‭ ‬the fifth known from Asia and the most Southern at the time of its discovery.‭ … Read more

Montanoceratops

In Depth        The material that would be named as Montanoceratops was originally assigned to Leptoceratops as a second species in 1935 as Leptoceratops cerorhynchos. However the original remains were incomplete and when further and more complete material was discovered by C. M. Sternbergi this second species of Leptoceratops was realised to be a different albeit … Read more