Bagaceratops
Name:
Bagaceratops
(Small horned face).
Phonetic: Bah-gah-seh-rah-tops.
Named By: Teresa Maryanska and Halszka Osm�lska -
1975.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Cerapoda, Ceratopsia, Bagaceratopidae.
Species: B. rozhdestvenskyi
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: About 1 meter long.
Known locations: Mongolia.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Cranial remains of at least
twenty five individuals or varying degrees of completeness. Skulls of
juveniles at various growth stages are also known. Post cranial
remains far rarer.
A
relative of the world famous Protoceratops,
Bagaceratops is unusual
in that it is more primitive, yet appeared later. Bagaceratops
seems to have been like other small ceratopsids
of its kind, though
most of the post cranial skeleton is still unknown. Bagaceratops
would have cropped plants with its beak while also keeping an eye open
for the approach of potential predators such as tyrannosaurs
and
dromaeosaurs.
There
has been past speculation that the genus Magnirostris
may actually be
based upon specimens of Bagaceratops.
Further reading
- Protoceratopsidae (Dinosauria) of Asia. - Palaeontologica Polonica
33:133-181. - T. Maryanska & H. Osm�lska - 1975.
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