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Protoceratops
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You can see this dinosaur in the Museum.
Information
One Protoceratops specimen was fossilised while being attacked by Velociraptor.
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- Pronounced
- pro-toe-ker-ah-tops
- Meaning of name
- first horned face
- Length
- 1.8m
- Height
- 1m
- Weight
- 400kg
- Teeth
- shearing and grinding teeth with a horny beak at the front
- Diet
- herbivorous
- Food
- plant material
- How it moved
- on 4 legs
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(85 - 80 million years ago) - Found in
- Peoples Republic of China, Mongolia
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Neoceratopsia, Coronosauria, Protoceratops
- Named by
- Granger and Gregory (1923)
- Type species
- andrewsi
