Protoceratops

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Protoceratops

Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Protoceratops skeleton at Wyoming Dinosaur Center.
Protoceratops skeleton at Wyoming Dinosaur Center.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Marginocephalia
Infraorder: Ceratopsia
Family: Protoceratopsidae
Genus: Protoceratops
Groups
P. andrewsi(type)
P. hellenikorhinus

Protoceratops was a ceratopsian dinosaur from Mongolia. It was shown in a fossil attacking a Velociraptor.