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Protoceratopsidae

Bainoceratops efremovi

"mountain horned face"

Generic ceratopsian body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Bainoceratops 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ceratopsian body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Bainoceratops
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (75–71 Mya)
Place
Mongolia
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Protoceratopsidae
Bainoceratops reconstruction by Atlantis536
Reconstruction · Atlantis536 (CC0)

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.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Bainoceratops — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.