Platyceratops

Platyceratops

Pronunciation:
plat-ee-serra-tops
Name meaning:
'flat horned face'
Platyceratops
Type of dinosaur:
ceratopsian
Diet:
herbivorous herbivorous food icon
When it lived:
Late Cretaceous, 75-72 million years ago
Found in:
Mongolia

Platyceratops is known from a skull and mandible (lower jawbone).

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:
Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Neoceratopsia, Bagaceratopsidae
Named by:
Alifanov (2003)
Type species:
tatarinovi

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