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Gobiceratops minutus

Gobiceratops
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Gobiceratops BW.jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Cerapoda
Infraorder: Ceratopsia
Family: Bagaceratopidae
Genus: Gobiceratops
Alifanov, 2008
Species
  • G. minutus Alifanov, 2008 (type)

Gobiceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. It is based on a skull that is 3.5 centimeters (1.4 inches) long, from the Khermin Tsav locality in the Barun Goyot Formation of southern Mongolia; the type individual was young. Gobiceratops is thought to have been related to Bagaceratops, and a member of Bagaceratopidae. It was described in 2008 by Alifanov. The type species is G. minutus.



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