BREVICERATOPS
a protoceratopsid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia.
Pronunciation: BREV-ih-SEH-ruh-tops
Meaning: Short horned face
Author/s: Kurzanov (
1990)
Synonyms: Protoceratops kozlowskii
First Discovery: Ömnögovi, Mongolia
Discovery Chart Position: #346
Breviceratops kozlowskii
(Kozlowski's Short Horned Face)Etymology
Breviceratops is derived from the Latin "brevis" (short), and the Greek "keras" (horn) and "ops" (face), referring to its shortened snout and short and flattened nasal horn.
The
species epithet,
kozlowskii, honours Polish palaeontologist Roman Kozlowski.
It was initially named as a second species of
Protoceratops,
Protoceratops kozlowskii, by Teresa Marya?ska and Halszka Osmólska in 1975.
Discovery
The first fossils of
Breviceratops were discovered in the
Barun Goyot Formation at the Khulsan locality, Nemegt Basin, Ömnögovi, Mongolia, by a Polish expedition to the Gobi Desert in the 1960s.
Since then, more specimens from the Khulsan and Hermiin Tsav localities have been assigned to
Breviceratops, but they've mostly been claimed by
Bagaceratops.
The
holotype (ZPAL MgD-I/117) is a nearly complete skull and lower jaw, and associated partial skeleton, belonging to a juvenile.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian
Age range: 72-71 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Maryanska T and Osmólska H (1975) "
Protoceratopsidae (Dinosauria) of Asia".
Palaeontologia Polonica, 33: 134-143.
• Kurzanov SM (1990) "A new Late Cretaceous protoceratopsid genus from Mongolia".
Paleontological Journal (in Russian), 4: 91-97.
• Sereno PC (2000) "The fossil record, systematics and evolution of pachycephalosaurs and ceratopsians from Asia". Page 489-492 in Benton, Shishkin, Unwin and Kurochkin (eds.) "
The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia".
• Makovicky PJ (2001) "A
Montanoceratops cerorhynchus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) braincase from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta". Page 243-262 in Tanke and Carpenter (eds.) "
Mesozoic Vertebrate Life".
• Abbott A (1996) "Missing dinosaur skulls raise new fears of smuggling
in Moscow".
Nature, 384: 499. DOI: 10.1038/384499a0.
• Czepinski L (2019) "Ontogeny and variation of a protoceratopsid dinosaur
Bagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi from the Late Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert".
Historical Biology, 32(10): 1394-1421. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2019.1593404.
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