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Protoceratopsidae

Breviceratops kozlowskii

"short horned face"

Generic ceratopsian body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Breviceratops 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 Breviceratops
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
Place
Mongolia
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Protoceratopsidae
Breviceratops reconstruction by PaleoNeolitic
Reconstruction · PaleoNeolitic (CC-BY)

Breviceratops (meaning “short horned face”) is a genus of protoceratopsid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now the Barun Goyot Formation, Mongolia.

What we know

  • Named by Kurzanov, 1990.
  • Fossils found in Mongolia.

What we guess

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