Montanoceratops

Montana horned face

• Montana · English (place name) · the US state of Montana, where the fossils were found
• keras · Greek · horn
• ops · Greek · face

The name combines Montana, the US state where the first fossils were found, with the Greek words keras (horn) and ops (face). It means "Montana horned face". It refers to the small horn on the snout of this early horned dinosaur (a leptoceratopsid).

Named by

Sternberg

Year named

1951

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

St. Mary River Formation, Montana, USA (also reported from Alberta, Canada)

The type species is Montanoceratops cerorhynchus, originally described by Brown and Schlaikjer in 1942 as Leptoceratops cerorhynchus and moved to its own genus by Sternberg in 1951. It is a ceratopsian, in the family Leptoceratopsidae (or Protoceratopsidae in older classifications).