Auroraceratops
Auroraceratops was a small, early horned dinosaur that walked on two legs. It lived in what is now China during the Early Cretaceous period, about 113 to 110 million years ago. This dinosaur had a short, wide skull and a beak for nibbling plants.13
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Auroraceratops had a short, wide snout, unlike many other early horned dinosaurs that had long, narrow snouts.1
Its name honors Dawn Dodson, the wife of paleontologist Peter Dodson, as well as meaning 'dawn horned face'.1
Over 80 skeletons of Auroraceratops have been found, many curled up as if they died in burrows.1
This dinosaur had rough, bumpy areas on its skull and jaws that were probably covered in horny material (keratin) in life.1
Auroraceratops lived in a seasonally dry environment alongside other dinosaurs like the tyrannosauroid Xiongguanlong and the ornithomimosaur Beishanlong.1
It was about the size of a large dog, only 1.25 meters (4.1 feet) long and weighing about 15.5 kilograms (34 pounds).1

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Auroraceratops
?How big was Auroraceratops?
About 1.25 metres (4.1 feet) long, 44 centimetres (17 inches) tall at the hip, and weighed around 15.5 kilograms (34 pounds). That is about the size of a medium dog.12
?Did Auroraceratops have feathers?
No source says Auroraceratops had feathers. It had rough, bumpy areas on its skull and jaws that were probably covered in horny material called keratin, but no feathers are mentioned.1
?What did Auroraceratops eat?
It ate plants. It had a beak for nibbling plants and fang-like teeth in the front of its mouth.1
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Auroraceratops
- Bautizado por
- You et al. 20053
- Grupo
- Dinos con cornos
- Familia / clado
- Neoceratopsia3
- Clasificación
- Ornithischia > Ceratopsia3
- Idade das rochas
- de 113 a 110 millóns de anos (Albian)3
- Formacións rochosas
- Zhonggou3
- Países
- China3
- Rexistros fósiles
- 2 na Paleobiology Database3
- Descubrimento
- Auroraceratops was named in 2005 by You Hailu and colleagues based on a nearly complete skull found in the Gongpoquan Basin of Gansu Province, China.13
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are not sure whether differences in skull shape among Auroraceratops specimens are due to individual variation, sexual differences, or how the fossils were preserved.1
De onde veñen os datos
- Auroraceratops (en.wikipedia.org)
- Small horned dinosaur from China, a Triceratops relative, walked on two feet (vet.upenn.edu)
- Auroraceratops in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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