Bagaceratops
Bagaceratops was a tiny horned dinosaur that lived in the Gobi Desert. It was one of the smallest ceratopsians, about as long as a bicycle. It had a small frill and a parrot-like beak for chomping plants.12
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Bagaceratops had no teeth at the front of its upper jaw, unlike its relative Protoceratops.1
It lived about 72 to 71 million years ago, near the end of the age of dinosaurs.1
Scientists once thought that fossils of Bagaceratops were several different dinosaurs, like Gobiceratops and Magnirostris, but now they think those are just Bagaceratops.1
Bagaceratops had a small frill on its head, much smaller than the frills of later horned dinosaurs.1
Its skull was more triangular than that of its close cousin Protoceratops.1
Most asked questions about Bagaceratops
?How big was Bagaceratops?
Bagaceratops was about 1 to 1.5 metres (3.3 to 4.9 feet) long and weighed around 22 to 45 kilograms (49 to 99 pounds). It was one of the smallest horned dinosaurs.12
?What did Bagaceratops eat?
Bagaceratops was an herbivore, meaning it ate plants. It used its parrot-like beak to chomp on plants and had about ten grinding teeth per jaw to chew them.12
?Where did Bagaceratops live?
Bagaceratops lived in Asia, in what is now the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. Its fossils have been found in the Barun Goyot Formation and Bayan Mandahu Formation.12
?When did Bagaceratops live?
Bagaceratops lived during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 72 to 71 million years ago. That was near the very end of the age of dinosaurs.12
?Did Bagaceratops have horns?
Bagaceratops did not have large horns like Triceratops. Its name means 'small-horned face,' and it had a small frill on its head but no big horns.1
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- Scientific name
- Bagaceratops
- Named by
- Maryanska and OsmΓ³lska 19753
- Group
- Horned dinos
- Family / clade
- Protoceratopsidae3
- Classification
- Ornithischia > Ceratopsia3
- Age of the rocks
- 84 to 66 million years (Campanian / Maastrichtian)3
- Rock formations
- Baruungoyot, Djadokhta, Bayan Mandahu3
- Countries
- Mongolia, China3
- Fossil records
- 18 in the Paleobiology Database3
- Also known as
- Gobiceratops, Lamaceratops, Magnirostris, Platyceratops (older names now counted as the same animal)3
- Discovery
- Bagaceratops was named in 1975 by Polish paleontologists Teresa MaryaΕska and Halszka OsmΓ³lska, based on fossils found in the Gobi Desert during the Polish-Mongolian expeditions.12
- Still debated
- Scientists are still debating whether some other ceratopsians, like Breviceratops, are really a separate genus or just Bagaceratops.1
Where the facts come from
- Bagaceratops (en.wikipedia.org)
- Bagaceratops | Natural History Museum (nhm.ac.uk)
- Bagaceratops in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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