Protoceratopsid dinosaur genus from the Late Cretaceous
Not to be confused with Vagaceratops.
Bagaceratops
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, ~72–71 Ma
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Skeletal reconstruction (including elements previously described as Magnirostris)
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
†Ornithischia
Clade:
†Ceratopsia
Parvorder:
†Coronosauria
Family:
†Protoceratopsidae
Genus:
†Bagaceratops Maryanska & Osmolska, 1975
Type species
†Bagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi
Maryanska & Osmolska, 1975
Synonyms
Gobiceratops minutus Alifanov, 2008
Lamaceratops tereschenkoi Alifanov, 2003
Magnirostris dodsoni You & Dong 2003
Platyceratops tatarinovi Alifanov, 2003
Bagaceratops (meaning "small-horned face") is a genus of small protoceratopsid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, around 72 to 71 million years ago. Bagaceratops remains have been reported from the Barun Goyot Formation and Bayan Mandahu Formation. One specimen may argue the possible presence of Bagaceratops in the Djadochta Formation.
Bagaceratops was among the smallest ceratopsians, growing up to 1–1.5 m (3.3–4.9 ft) in length, with a weight about 22.7–45 kg (50–99 lb). Although emerging late in the reign of the dinosaurs, Bagaceratops had a fairly primitive anatomy—when compared to the much derived ceratopsids—and kept the small body size that characterized early ceratopsians. Unlike its close relative, Protoceratops, Bagaceratops lacked premaxillary teeth (cylindrical, blunt teeth near the tip of the upper jaw).
One specimen may argue the possible presence of Bagaceratops in the Djadochta Formation. Bagaceratops was among the smallest ceratopsians, growing up...
largely present in Bagaceratops and thus becoming synonyms of this genus. Under this reasoning, Protoceratopsidae consists of Bagaceratops, Breviceratops...
largely present in Bagaceratops and thus becoming synonyms of this genus. Under this reasoning, Protoceratopsidae consists of Bagaceratops, Breviceratops...
type locality of Bagaceratops, a coeval protoceratopsid. The Hermiin Tsav material has been noted as closely resembling Bagaceratops, which has led to...
found to be a non-dinosaurian archosauromorph Baalsaurus Bactrosaurus Bagaceratops Bagaraatan Bagualia Bagualosaurus Bahariasaurus Bainoceratops Bajadasaurus...
(Conchoraptor and Heyuannia), a sauropod (Quaesitosaurus), ceratopsians (Bagaceratops and Breviceratops), a pachycephalosaur (Tylocephale), and ankylosaurs...
S2CID 21951969. Kim, B.; Yun, H.; Lee, Y.-N. (2019). "The postcranial skeleton of Bagaceratops (Ornithischia: Neoceratopsia) from the Baruungoyot Formation (Upper Cretaceous)...
Gobiceratops that are very closely related to and potentially synonymous with Bagaceratops. While there were many unresolved areas of the strict consensus, including...
1975 Teresa Maryańska and Osmolska described the new genus and species Bagaceratops rozhdestventskyi. They also described the new species Protoceratops kozlowskii...
Linheraptor; oviraptorids Machairasaurus and Wulatelong; protoceratopsids Bagaceratops and Protoceratops hellenikorhinus; and troodontids Linhevenator, Papiliovenator...
synonym of Arstanosaurus. Gobiceratops minutus: May be a growth stage of Bagaceratops. "Gspsaurus pakistani": One of several informally-named titanosaurs from...
ornithischians such as Saichania, Tarchia, Zaraapelta, Tylocephale, Bagaceratops, Breviceratops, and Udanoceratops; sauropods such as Quaesitosaurus;...
was small for a ceratopsid but it might had been a juvenile. BagaceratopsBagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi ~72–71 mya Barun Goyot Formation and Bayan Mandahu...
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