Prenoceratops
Name:
Prenoceratops
(bent horned face).
Phonetic: Pree-noe-seh-rah-tops.
Named By: Brenda J. Chinnery - 2004.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ceratopsia, Leptoceratopsidae.
Species: P. pieganensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Roughly about 2.75 meters long.
Known locations: USA, Montana - Two Medicine
Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Remains of several
individuals.
A close relative of the better known ceratopsian dinosaur Leptoceratops, Prenoceratops can be told apart by the skull which has a greater slope to the skull than that seen in Leptoceratops.
Further reading
- Description of Prenoceratops pieganensis gen et
sp. nov.
(Dinosauria: Neoceratopsia) from the Two Medicine Formation of
Montana. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24 (3):
572–590. - Brenda J. Chinnery - 2004.
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