Bagaceratops means "little-horned face". It was discovered by Maryanska and Halszaka Osmolska, in 1975. and the remains found in Asia.
There three classifecation of Bagaceratops, Orrnithischia, Marginocephalia, and Protoceratopsidae.
It has a dimensions of 1 meter length, 50 centimeters and 22 kilograms weight. There food was herbivore.
Bagaceratops was a quadruped dinosaur, small but powerful, with a distinctive, toothed, bony crest along the back edge of its skull and a small horn on its muzzle; it had strong jaws and teeth for finely chewing the vegetation on which it fed.
Bagaceratops is one of the dinosaur which was found in Mongolia and it is regarded as one of the most primitive of the ceratopsians. As well as fossilized skeleton remains, its nests and eggs have been found.
Now as then at the end of its mouth, it had a beak similar to that parrot, useful for cutting vegetation.
The skull of Bagaceratops
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