Protoceratops

Protoceratops facts!

• Protoceratops was a predecessor of the more familiar horned dinosaurs such as Triceratops.
• Protoceratops is a ceratopsian dinosaur found as fossils in the Gobi Desert from 80-million-year-old deposits of the Late Cretaceous Period.
• Although small for a ceratopsian, Protoceratops was still a relatively large animal. Adults were about 1.8 metres (6 feet) long and would have weighed about 180 kg (400 pounds).
• The skull was very long, about one-fifth the total body length. Bones in the skull grew backward into a perforated frill. The jaws were beaklike, and teeth were present in both the upper and lower jaws.