Yamaceratops dorngobiensis
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Yamaceratops 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Yamaceratops is a genus of primitive ceratopsian that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Mongolia. The genus contains a single species, Y. dorngobiensis. It was a relatively small dinosaur, with an estimated length of 50 cm and weighing around 2 kg.
What we know
- Named by Makovicky & Norell, 2006.
- Fossils found in Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Yamaceratops — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.