Auroraceratops Auroraceratops
"dawn horned face"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Auroraceratops 1.3 m (4.1 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1.3 m (4.1 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Auroraceratops, meaning “dawn horned face”, is a genus of bipedal basal neoceratopsian dinosaur, from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian age) of north central China. The etymology of the generic name refers to its status as an early ceratopsian and also to Dawn Dodson, wife of Peter Dodson, one of the palaeontologists who described it.
What we know
- Named by You et al., 2005.
- Body length estimated at about 1.25 m.
- Fossils found in China.