Dinosaur
Bagaceratops
It had a beak and a small bump on its snout, but no large horns above its eyes.
Bagaceratops was a small ceratopsian that did not have the large horns of its more famous relatives.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
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Bagaceratops at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Protoceratopsidae
- Protoceratopsids
- Fossil locations
- Mongolia
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Bagaceratops
It was among the smallest ceratopsians, measuring approximately one to one and a half meters in length. It retained a relatively simple anatomy despite living at the end of the Cretaceous.
It had a beak and a small prominence on its snout, but no large horns over its eyes. Living late in a group's history does not require having a more complicated anatomy. Branches may retain simple combinations while others develop very striking features.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Bagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi
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- Bagaceratops
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- Protoceratopsidae
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- Living birds
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