Named By: | Teresa Maryanska and Halszka Osmolska in 1975 |
Time Period: | Late Cretaceous, 80 Ma |
Location: | Mongolia |
Size: | About 1 meter long |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | 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 |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Cerapoda | Ceratopsia | Bagaceratopidae | |
Bagaceratops, meaning "small-horned face" (Mongolian Baga = "small"; Greek ceratops = "horn face"), is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur that lived in what is now Mongolia around 80 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous. Although emerging late in the reign of the dinosaurs, Bagaceratops had a fairly primitive anatomy and kept the small body size that characterized early ceratopsians.