Protoceratops
Protoceratops was a ceratopsian dinosaur from Mongolia. It was shown in a fossil being attacked by a Velociraptor.
| Protoceratops Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous
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| Protoceratops skeleton at Wyoming Dinosaur Center. | |
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| Genus: | Protoceratops
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P. andrewsi (type) | |
Protoceratops Media
Flaming Cliffs of Mongolia. This highly fossiliferous locality of the Gobi Desert yielded the first known remains of Protoceratops
Holotype skull of P. andrewsi, collected during the Third Central Asiatic Expedition
Holotype skull of P. hellenikorhinus at the Inner Mongolia Museum
Model of Protoceratops hatchlings based on the Oviraptor nest AMNH 6508. This nest was originally thought to represent Protoceratops eggs
Oviraptorid embryo MPC-D 100/971, a specimen that shed light on the identity of elongatoolithid eggs
Fossil of the Fighting Dinosaurs as found in the field, 1971
Skeletal reconstruction of P. andrewsi
Protoceratops (A, D, E) compared to other ceratopsians
