Definition of Protoceratops. Meaning of Protoceratops. Synonyms of Protoceratops

- description, the generic name, Protoceratops, is intended to mean "first horned face" as it was believed that Protoceratops represented an early ancestor...
- its back under the Protoceratops. After the burial event, either a Protoceratops herd or scavengers tore off the buried Protoceratops to the left and backwards...
- of Velociraptor, Protoceratops, and modern birds and reptiles indicates that Velociraptor may have been nocturnal, while Protoceratops may have been cathemeral...
- suggested for the primitive ceratopsian Protoceratops. However, comparisons between the scleral rings of Protoceratops and Psittacosaurus and modern birds...
- and Halszka Osmólska in 1975 and named as a second species of Protoceratops, Protoceratops kozlowskii, the specific name honouring Polish paleontologist...
- Gregory in May 1923 as a monotypic family for Protoceratops andrewsi. Granger and Gregory recognized Protoceratops's close relationship to other ceratopsians...
- 74-million-year-old specimen found in 1971 Mongolia where a Velociraptor and Protoceratops were locked in battle and preserved. The "dueling" inference comes from...
- partial proximal parietal is shown to have an inverted "T" shape, as in Protoceratops. Although the first specimen discovered had single-rooted teeth (unusual...
- anagenetic transition from Protoceratops andrewsi to Bagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi. Juvenile remains, at first tentatively named Protoceratops kozlowskii, and then...
- on top of a nest erroneously attributed to the ceratopsian dinosaur Protoceratops. However, discoveries in the 1990s, including Citipati specimens clearly...