Dinosaur
Liaoceratops
It was much smaller than its horned relatives that lived later.
Liaoceratops helps us picture dinosaurs with neck frills before the giant, big-horned forms appeared.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Liaoceratops 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
- Neoceratopsia
- Neoceratopsians
- Fossil locations
- China
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Liaoceratops
It was much smaller than the later ceratopsids with their great horns. Its anatomy offers a view of an early stage in the evolution of dinosaurs with neck frills.
Its small size does not make it merely the young of a later ceratopsid. It represents a distinct form from an early chapter in the group’s history.
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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- Liaoceratops yanzigouensis
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- Liaoceratops
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- Neoceratopsia
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- Living birds
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