Gobiceratops
| Gobiceratops Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | Cerapoda |
| Infraorder: | Ceratopsia |
| Family: | Bagaceratopidae |
| Genus: | Gobiceratops Alifanov, 2008 |
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Gobiceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. It is based on a skull that is 3.5 centimeters (1.4 inches) long, from the Khermin Tsav locality in the Barun Goyot Formation of southern Mongolia; the type individual was young. Gobiceratops is thought to have been related to Bagaceratops, and a member of Bagaceratopidae. It was described in 2008 by Alifanov. The type species is G. minutus.[1]
References
- ↑ Alifanov, V.R. (2008). "The tiny horned dinosaur Gobiceratops minutus gen. et sp. nov (Bagaceratopidae, Neoceratopsia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia". Paleontological Journal 42 (6): 621–633. doi:10.1134/S0031030108060087.