Bainoceratops

Bainoceratops

Taxobox|
name = "Bainoceratops"
status = fossil
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
infraordo = Ceratopsia
familia = Leptoceratopsidae?
genus = "Bainoceratops"
binomial_authority = Tereschenko & Alifanov, 2003
binomial ="Bainoceratops efremovi"

"Bainoceratops" was a dinosaur from the late Campanian in the Late Cretaceous. It was a ceratopsian first described by Tereschenko and Alifanov in 2003. Its fossils were found in southern Mongolia.

Classification

"Bainoceratops" belonged to the Ceratopsia (the name is Greek for "horned face"), a group of herbivorous dinosaurs with parrot-like beaks which thrived in North America and Asia during the Cretaceous Period, which ended roughly 65 million years ago.

Unfortunately, "Bainoceratops" is only known from a vertebral column. This is enough to distinguish it from "Protoceratops" and show that it is more closely related to "Udanoceratops tschizhovi"

Diet

"Bainoceratops", like all Ceratopsians, was a herbivore. During the Cretaceous, flowering plants were "geographically limited on the landscape", and so it is likely that this dinosaur fed on the predominant plants of the era: ferns, cycads and conifers. It would have used its sharp Ceratopsian beak to bite off the leaves or needles.

References

*

External links

* http://www.ntux.at/simonkrauter/newdinorama/dinos/b/bainoceratops/daten.htm (in German)
* [http://www.users.qwest.net/~jstweet1/ceratopia.htm Ceratopsia] at "Thescelosaurus"!


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Bainoceratops — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda ? Bainoceratops Rango fósil: Cretácico superior Estado de conservación Fósil Clasificación científica …   Wikipedia Español

  • Bainoceratops — Zeitraum Obere Kreide 75 bis 70 Mio. Jahre Fundorte Mongolei Systematik Cerapoda Marginoceph …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Bainoceratops efremovi — Bainoceratops Zeitraum Obere Kreide 75 bis 70 Mio. Jahre Fossilfundorte Mongolei Systematik Cerapoda Marginocephalia Ceratopsia …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Bagaceratopsidae — Protoceratopsidae Lebendrekonstruktion von Protoceratops Zeitraum Obere Kreide 85 bis 70 Mio. Jahre Fossilfundorte Ostasien …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Protoceratopidae — Protoceratopsidae Lebendrekonstruktion von Protoceratops Zeitraum Obere Kreide 85 bis 70 Mio. Jahre Fossilfundorte Ostasien …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Ceratopsia — Unikonta Ceratopsians Temporal range: Late Jurassic – Late Cretaceous, 156–65 Ma …   Wikipedia

  • Ceratopia — Ceratopsia Skelett von Protoceratops Zeitraum Oberer Jura bis Kreide 161 bis 65 Mio. Jahre Fundorte …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Dinosauriersystematik — Diese Systematik der Dinosaurier wurde nach den unter Literatur und Weblinks aufgeführten Quellen erstellt. Die Dinosaurier sind ein Taxon der Archosaurier innerhalb der Reptilien (Reptilia). Gemeinsam mit ihrer Schwestergruppe, den Flugsauriern… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Leptoceratopidae — Leptoceratopsidae Lebendrekonstruktion von Leptoceratops Zeitraum Obere Kreide 83 bis 66 Mio. Jahre Fossilfundorte Nordamerika …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Protoceratopsidae — Lebendrekonstruktion von Protoceratops Zeitraum Oberkreide 85 bis 70 Mio. Jahre Fundorte Ostasien …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”