Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Prenoceratops
"bent horned face"
Type species Prenoceratops pieganensis
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Leptoceratopsidae
- Found in
- Canada and United States
- Named by
- Chinnery 2004
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Prenoceratops
What it was like
Prenoceratops was a small, early horned dinosaur from the leptoceratopsid family. It had no real horns and only a short frill. Its skull sloped steeply down toward its beak.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Montana and Alberta. Its bones come from the Two Medicine and Oldman formations. In Montana it shared the land with the tyrannosaur Daspletosaurus and the duckbill Hypacrosaurus.
How it was found
Chinnery named it in 2004. The type species is Prenoceratops pieganensis. Many of its bones come from a bonebed.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Leptoceratopsidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: B. J. Chinnery. 2004. Description of Prenoceratops pieganensis gen. et sp. nov. (Dinosauria: Neoceratopsia) from the Two Medicine Formation of Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3):572-590