LegendaryBagaceratops
Bagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi
BAH-gah-SERR-a-tops· “small horned face”
🦕 Dinosaur🕰️ Cretaceous🌿 herbivore🦴 Bagaceratopidae
1 m
Length
0.5 m
Height
22 kg
Weight
A tiny, early horned dinosaur from Mongolia with a small nose horn and a short frill — a close relative of Protoceratops that shows what the ceratopsian family looked like before it grew to giant size.
When
Late Cretaceous, ~72 million years ago
Found in
Mongolia
Discovered
Maria Teresa Maryańska, 1975
Did you know?
- A small relative of Protoceratops, only about a metre long.
- Bore a small nose horn and a short, frilled skull.
- Its name means 'small horned face' in Mongolian and Greek.
Artwork: PaleoNeolitic, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.