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Platyceratops
© Andrey Atuchin
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Platyceratops is known from a skull and mandible (lower jawbone).
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Fact file
- Pronounced
- plat-ee-serra-tops
- Meaning of name
- flat horned face
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(75 - 72 million years ago) - Found in
- Mongolia
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Neoceratopsia, Bagaceratopsidae, Platyceratops
- Named by
- Alifanov (2003)
- Type species
- tatarinovi