Named By: | Charles Whitney Gilmore in 1914 |
Time Period: | Late Cretaceous, 74.5 Ma |
Location: | USA, Montana - Two Medicine Formation |
Size: | About 1.5 meters long for the juvenile specimens |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Partial remains of several juveniles |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ceratopsidae | Centrosaurinae | |
Brachyceratops ('short horned face') is a dubious genus of ceratopsian dinosaur known only from partial juvenile specimens dating to the late Cretaceous Period of Montana, United States.
Brachyceratops has historically been known from juvenile remains, with one specimen having since been re-classified as Rubeosaurus ovatus.