Brachyceratops
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Brachyceratops ('short horned face') is a dubious genus of ceratopsian dinosaur known only from partial juvenile specimens dating to the late Cretaceous Period of Montana, United States.
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Brachyceratops | |
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Holotype specimen USNM 7951 mounted in the Smithsonian | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Ceratopsia |
Family: | †Ceratopsidae |
Subfamily: | †Centrosaurinae |
Genus: | †Brachyceratops Gilmore, 1914 |
Species: | †B. montanensis |
Binomial name | |
†Brachyceratops montanensis Gilmore, 1914 | |
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Brachyceratops has historically been known from juvenile remains, with one specimen having since been re-classified as Rubeosaurus ovatus.[1][2]