- Type of dinosaur:
- ceratopsian
- Length:
- 1.8m
- Weight:
- 400kg
- Diet:
- herbivorous
- Teeth:
- shearing and grinding teeth with a horny beak at the front
- Food:
- plant material
- How it moved:
- on 4 legs
- When it lived:
- Late Cretaceous, 74-70 million years ago
- Found in:
- China,
- Mongolia
One Protoceratops specimen was fossilised while being attacked by Velociraptor.
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Ceratopsia, Neoceratopsia, Coronosauria
- Named by:
- Granger and Gregory (1923)
- Type species:
- andrewsi
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