Bagaceratops
Bagaceratops (meaning "small horned face") was a plant-eating dinosaur that had a bony ridge along the back of its skull. This ceratopsian dinosaur lived during the late Cretaceous period, roughly 84 to 71 million years ago. Bagaceratops fossils have been found in Mongolia.
| Bagaceratops Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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| Genus: | Bagaceratops Maryanska & Osmolska (1975)
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Description
Bagaceratops had a large head, a bulky body, a parrot-like beak, cheek teeth, triangular cheek protuberances, a short snout horn, and a small frill on its head. This ornithischian (bird-hipped) dinosaur was about 3 feet (1 m) long. Bagaceratops walked on four short legs (it was a quadruped).
Bagaceratops could eat tough plants; it had powerful jaws and cheek teeth that could chew the food.
Bagaceratops Media
Fossil localities of Mongolia and the location of Bayan Mandahu; Bagaceratops fossils have been reported from the Bayan Mandahu (bottom right), Hermiin Tsav, Khulsan (both left), and possibly Udyn Sayr (center) localities
Diagram of Bagaceratops KID 196
Bagaceratops specimen MPC-D 100/551B, which belongs to an indeterminate species
Holotype skull of Magnirostris
Skeletal diagram featuring the known elements of Gobiceratops
Bagaceratops specimens compared to a 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall human
