Bainoceratops
Name:
Bainoceratops
(Mountain horned face).
Phonetic: Bay-noe-seh-rah-tops.
Named By: V. S. Tereschenko & V. R.
Alifanov - 2003.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ceratopsia, Protoceratopsidae.
Species: B. efremovi (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unknown due to a severe lack of fossil
remains.
Known locations: Mongolia - Djadochta Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial vertebral column.
Bainoceratops was described as a genus of protoceratopsid ceratopsian. However the genus has only been described from a partial vertebral column, and although this has previously been seen to be enough to distinguish Bainoceratops from other genera, some authors now consider Bainoceratops to actually be a synonym to the much more famous Protoceratops, a genus that was also active at the same time and location where the Bainoceratops type material was recovered from.
Further reading
- Bainoceratops efremovi, a new protoceratopid
dinosaur
(Protoceratopidae, Neoceratopsia) from the Bain-Dzak Locality
(South Mongolia) - V. S. Tereschenko & V. R.
Alifanov - 2003.
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