Archaeoceratops
"ancient horned face"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Archaeoceratops 90 cm (3 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 90 cm (3 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Archaeoceratops, meaning “ancient horned face”, is a genus of basal neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian stage) of north central China. It appears to have been bipedal and quite small, reaching 0.9 m in length and 10 kg in body mass. It had a comparatively large head but no horns, possessing only a small bony frill projecting from the back of its head.
What we know
- Named by Dong & Azuma, 1997.
- Body length estimated at about 0.9 m.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Archaeoceratops — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.