Bainoceratops efremovi Bainoceratops

"mountain horned face"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Bainoceratops 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (75–71 Mya)
Place
Mongolia
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Protoceratopsidae

Bainoceratops (meaning “mountain horned face”, after the type locality, Bayn Dzak) is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur from the late Campanian in the Late Cretaceous. The type species is B. efremovi. Its fossils were found in southern Mongolia in the Djadochta Formation.

What we know

  • Named by Tereshchenko & Aflifanov, 2003.
  • Fossils found in Mongolia.