Protoceratops

Protoceratops
Reconstrucción d'un Protoceratops
Estau de conservación

Extinto (IUCN)
Clasificación cientifica
Reino:
 Animalia
Filo:
 Chordata
Clase:
 Sauropsida
Superorden:
 Dinosauria
Orden:
 Ornithischia
Suborden:
 Neornithischia
Familia:
 Protoceratopsidae
Chenero:
 Protoceratops
Especie tipo
Protoceratops andrewsi
Granger & Gregory, 1923
Descripción
Protoceratops
Granger & Gregory, 1923

Protoceratops ye un chenero extinto de dinosauro d'a familia d'os Protoceratopsidae que vivió en Asia fa arredol de 75 millons a 71 millons d'anyos. Aconsiguió uns 2 m de luengo con un peso d'entre 164 y 180 kg. Yera un herbivoro.

Os primers fósils estioron descritos en 1923 per Walter W. Granger y William K. Gregory.[1]

Especies

  • P. andrewsi, ye a especie tipo d'o chenero.
  • P. hellenikorhinus.

Referencias

  1. ↑ (en) Granger, W. W.; Gregory, W. K. (1923). "Protoceratops andrewsi, a pre-ceratopsian dinosaur from Mongolia" (PDF). American Museum of Natural History Novitates (72): 1−9

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