Bagaceratopidae
| Bagaceratopidae Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Life restoration of Gobiceratops minutus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Neornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ceratopsia |
| Clade: | †Coronosauria |
| Family: | †Bagaceratopidae Alifanov, 2003 |
| Type species | |
| †Bagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi | |
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Bagaceratopidae is a family of neoceratopsian dinosaurs. It was named by Alifanov in 2003 but no definition has been proposed.[1] Because of lacking of the definition, Bagaceratopidae was considered inactive by Paul Sereno in 2005.[2] Alifanov in 2003 classified to this family four genera: Bagaceratops, Breviceratops, Lamaceratops and Platyceratops[1] and in a publication from 2008 he included in Bagaceratopidae also Magnirostris and newly described genus Gobiceratops. Alifanov suggested also that Bagaceratopidae, unlike other neoceratopsian families, is of Paleoasiatic origin.[3]
Bagaceratopids existed during the late Cretaceous period, between about 85.8 and 70.6 million years ago.[4]
See also
References
- ^ a b Alifanov, Vladimir (2003). "Two new dinosaurs of the Infraorder Neoceratopsia (Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Nemegt Depression, Mongolian People's Republic". Paleontological Journal. 37 (5): 524–535.
- ^ Sereno, P. C. (2005). "Bagaceratopidae". Taxon Search. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
- ^ Alifanov, Vladimir (2008). "The tiny horned dinosaur Gobiceratops minutus gen. et sp. nov. (Bagaceratopidae, Neoceratopsia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia". Paleontological Journal. 42 (6): 49–60. doi:10.1134/S0031030108060087.
- ^ Holtz, Thomas R. Jr. (2011) Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages, Winter 2010 Appendix.
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