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Lamaceratops
Lamaceratops
- Pronunciation:
- lah-mah-serra-tops
- Name meaning:
- 'Lama (Buddhist monk) horned face'
© Andrey Atuchin
- Type of dinosaur:
- ceratopsian
- Diet:
- herbivorous
- When it lived:
- Late Cretaceous, 75-72 million years ago
- Found in:
- Mongolia
Lamaceratops is known from a skull and right mandible (lower jawbone).
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Neoceratopsia, Bagaceratopsidae
- Named by:
- Alifanov (2003)
- Type species:
- tereschenkoi
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