Liaoceratops
"Liaoning horned face"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Liaoceratops 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125.75–125.68 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Liaoceratops, meaning “Liaoning horned face”, is a ceratopsian dinosaur believed to be an early relative of the horned ceratopsids. It lived in the Early Cretaceous, 126 million years ago. It was discovered in China by a team of American and Chinese scientists. Liaoceratops was much smaller than its later relatives, but offers a glimpse into the early evolution of this group of dinosaurs.
What we know
- Named by Xu et al., 2002.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Liaoceratops — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.