Asiaceratops
"Asian horned face"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Asiaceratops 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125–99 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · China · Mongolia · Uzbekistan
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Asiaceratops (meaning “Asian horned face”) is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It lived during the Early-Late Cretaceous. The type species, A. salsopaludalis is known from Uzbekistan, while A. sulcidens is known from China and Mongolia.
What we know
- Named by Nesov et al., 1989.
- Fossils found in Asia and China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Asiaceratops — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.