Bagaceratops

small horned face

• Baga · Mongolian · small
• keras · Greek · horn
• ops · Greek · face

The name combines the Mongolian word "baga" (small) with the Greek "keras" (horn) and "ops" (face), giving "small horned face". It refers to the animal's small size compared with other horned dinosaurs, and to the small nose horn on its face. It was a small ceratopsian (protoceratopsid) from Mongolia.

Named by

Maryańska and Osmólska

Year named

1975

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Barun Goyot Formation, Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Type species is Bagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi. It is a protoceratopsid ceratopsian dinosaur.