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BAGACERATOPS
(bah-gah-seh-rah-tops)
meaning: "Small horned face"
Bagaceratops
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 |
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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.

Read more about Bagaceratops at Wikipedia
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