Liaoceratops
Liaoceratops, meaning "Liaoning horned face", is a ceratopsian dinosaur believed to be an early relative of the horned ceratopsids. It lived in the Early Cretaceous, 126 million years ago. It was discovered in China by a team of American and Chinese scientists. Liaoceratops was much smaller than its later relatives, but offers a glimpse into the early evolution of this group of dinosaurs.
| Liaoceratops Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, | |
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| Restoration | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | †Ceratopsia |
| Infraorder: | †Neoceratopsia |
| Genus: | †Liaoceratops Xu, 2002 |
| Type species | |
| Liaoceratops yanzigouensis Xu, 2002 | |
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