Gobiceratops
Name:
Gobiceratops
(Gobi horned face).
Phonetic: Go-be-seh-rah-tops.
Named By: V. R. Alifanov - 2008.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ceratopsia, Bagaceratopidae.
Species: G. minutus (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Skull 3.5 centimetres long.
Known locations: Mongolia - Barun Goyot
Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Skull and dentary (lower
jaw) of a juvenile.
Named after the Gobi Desert, Gobiceratops seems to have been a small bagaceratopsid ceratopsian, though since the genus is only known from a juveniles skull, the full adult size is uncertain. Despite this, Gobiceratops may have been a close relative of Bagaceratops.
Further reading
- The tiny horned dinosaur Gobiceratops minutus
gen. et sp. nov.
(Bagaceratopidae, Neoceratopsia) from the Upper Cretaceous of
Mongolia. - Paleontological Journal 42(6):621-633. - V.
R. Alifanov - 2008.
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