Named By: | Brenda J. Chinnery in 2004 |
Time Period: | Late Cretaceous 74.3 Ma |
Location: | USA, Montana - Two Medicine Formation |
Size: | Roughly about 2.75 meters long |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Remains of several individuals |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ceratopsia | Leptoceratopsidae | |
Prenoceratops, (meaning 'bent or prone-horned face' and derived from Greek prene-/prene- meaning 'bent forwards' or 'prone', cerat-/kerat- meaning 'horn' and -ops/ops meaning 'face') is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. Its fossils have been found in the upper Two Medicine Formation in the present-day U.S. state of Montana, in Campanian age rock layers that have been dated to 74.3 million years ago.