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- Protoceratops abstract "Protoceratops (/ˌproʊtoʊˈsɛrətɒps/; from Greek proto-/πρωτο- "first", cerat-/κερατ- "horn" and -ops/-ωψ "face", meaning "First Horned Face") is a genus of sheep-sized (1.8 m long) herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur, from the Upper Cretaceous Period (Campanian stage) of what is now Mongolia. It was a member of the Protoceratopsidae, a group of early horned dinosaurs. Unlike later ceratopsians, however, it was a much smaller creature that lacked well-developed horns and retained some primitive traits not seen in later genera.Protoceratops had a large neck frill which was likely used as a display site to impress other members of the species. Other hypotheses about its function include protection of the neck and anchoring of jaw muscles, but the fragility of the frill and the poor leverage offered by possible attachment sites here makes these ideas implausible. Described by Walter W. Granger and W.K. Gregory in 1923, Protoceratops was initially believed to be an ancestor of the North American ceratopsians. Researchers currently distinguish two species of Protoceratops (P. andrewsi and P. hellenikorhinus), based in part by their respective sizes.In the 1920s, Roy Chapman Andrews discovered fossilized eggs in Mongolia that were interpreted as belonging to this dinosaur, but which turned out to be those of Oviraptor.".
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- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Greek.
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- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Basal_(phylogenetics).
- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Bayan_Mandahu_Formation.
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- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Campanian.
- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Carnegie_Museum_of_Natural_History.
- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Category:Coronosaurs.
- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cretaceous_animals_of_Asia.
- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cretaceous_dinosaurs.
- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Category:Dinosaurs_of_Asia.
- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fossils_of_China.
- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Cathemeral.
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- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Egg_(biology).
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- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Fenestra_(anatomy).
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- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink MYA_(unit).
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- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Mongolia.
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- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Psittacosaurus.
- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Quadruped.
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- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Roy_Chapman_Andrews.
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- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Serendipaceratops.
- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Sexual_dimorphism.
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- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Stage_(stratigraphy).
- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Stanford_University.
- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Synonym_(taxonomy).
- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Teresa_Maryanska.
- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Teresa_Maryańska.
- Protoceratops wikiPageWikiLink Theropod.