Auroraceratops
"dawn horned face"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Auroraceratops 1.3 m (4.1 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 1.3 m (4.1 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Auroraceratops — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.