Bainoceratops

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Bainoceratops
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 75–71 Ma
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: †Ornithischia
Suborder: †Ceratopsia
Genus: †Bainoceratops
Species:
†B. efremovi
Binomial name
†Bainoceratops efremovi
Tereschenko & Alifanov, 2003

Bainoceratops (Bain: mountain, keras: horn, ops: face) is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur from the late Campanian in the Late Cretaceous. This ceratopsian was first described by Tereschenko and Alifanov in 2003 and the type species is B. efremovi.[1] Its fossils were found in southern Mongolia in the Djadochta Formation.

Classification[]

Bainoceratops belonged to the Ceratopsia, a group of herbivorous dinosaurs with parrot-like beaks which thrived in North America and Asia during the Cretaceous Period, which ended roughly 66 million years ago.

The holotype and only specimen of Bainoceratops is a vertebral column. Even so, enough features are present to distinguish it from Protoceratops and show that it is more closely related to Udanoceratops tschizhovi.[2]

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References[]

  1. ^ Tereschenko, VS & Alifanov, VR (2003). "Bainoceratops efremovi, a new protoceratopid dinosaur (Protoceratopidae, Neoceratopsia) from the Bain-Dzak Locality (South Mongolia)". Paleontological Journal. 37 (3): 293–302.
  2. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20050321170419/http://www.ntux.at/simonkrauter/newdinorama/dinos/b/bainoceratops/daten.htm (in German)


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