Breviceratops

short horned face

• brevis · Latin · short
• keras · Greek · horn
• ops · Greek · face

Breviceratops combines the Latin "brevis" (short) with the Greek "keras" (horn) and "ops" (face), giving "short-horned face". The name refers to the small nasal horn of this small, beaked, horned dinosaur relative to the larger horns of many other ceratopsians.

Named by

Kurzanov

Year named

1990

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Barun Goyot Formation, Mongolia

A small protoceratopsid ceratopsian; the type species is Breviceratops kozlowskii, originally described as a species of Bagaceratops. Some researchers have suggested it may be a synonym of (or growth stage of) Bagaceratops, so its validity is debated.