Protoceratops was a herbivore. It lived in the Cretaceous period and inhabited Asia. Its fossils have been found in places such as Ömnögovi (Mongolia), Inner Mongolia (China) and Dornogovi (Mongolia).
Quick facts about Protoceratops:
- Existed from 145 million years ago to 66 million years ago
- Lived in a terrestrial habitat
- Was a herbivore
- Reproduced by laying eggs
- Had a body mass of approximately 177 kg
- 37 different specimens have been found by paleontologists
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Protoceratops was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- E. A. Maleev. 1952. Novoe semeystvo pantsirnich dinosavrov is verchnego mela Mongolii [A new family of armored dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 87(1):131-134
- I. Nikoloff and F. v. Huene. 1966. Neue Vertebratenfunde in der Wüste Gobi. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 11:691-694
- K. Mikhailov, K. Sabath, and S. Kurzanov. 1994. Eggs and nests from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
