Udanoceratops

Udan Sayr horned face

• Udan · Mongolian (place name) · Udan Sayr, the fossil locality in Mongolia
• kéras · Greek · horn
• ōps · Greek · face

Udanoceratops is named after the Udan Sayr locality in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, where the fossils were found, combined with the Greek words for "horn" and "face". The "-ceratops" ending is widely used for horned dinosaurs. The name therefore means roughly "Udan Sayr horned face".

Named by

Kurzanov

Year named

1992

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Udan Sayr, Ömnögovi Province, Gobi Desert, Mongolia

A valid genus of early horned dinosaur (ceratopsian), known from the type species Udanoceratops tschizhovi. It was a fairly large, hornless relative of Protoceratops. The exact formation it came from has been debated, so that detail is left out here.