Protoceratops Granger and Gregory 1923 (ceratopsian)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Protoceratopsidae

Synonym: Bainoceratops Tereshchenko and Alifanov 2003

Full reference: W. Granger and W. K. Gregory. 1923. Protoceratops andrewsi, a pre-ceratopsian dinosaur from Mongolia, with an appendix on the structural relationships of the Protoceratops beds. American Museum Novitates 72:1-9

Parent taxon: Protoceratopsidae according to B. Kim et al. 2019

See also Alifanov 2008, Bohlin 1953, Bonaparte 1978, Buchholz 2002, Carroll 1988, Chakravarti 1934, Charig 1967, Chinnery 2004, Chinnery and Horner 2007, Chinnery and Weishampel 1998, Czepiński 2020, Dodson 1997, Dodson and Currie 1990, Dong 1992, Farke 2011, Farke et al. 2014, Fastovsky et al. 2011, Godefroit et al. 2008, Granger and Gregory 1923, Gregory and Mook 1925, Handa et al. 2012, Huene 1927, Huene 1950, Huene 1958, Huene 1959, Kuhn 1964, Kurzanov 1992, Lambert et al. 2001, Lee et al. 2010, Lehman 1996, Longrich et al. 2010, Lull 1924, Lull 1933, Makovicky 2001, Makovicky and Norell 2006, Maryanska and Osmólska 1975, McGinnis 1982, McIntosh 1981, Morschhauser et al. 2019, Morschhauser et al. 2019, Nopcsa 1928, Olshevsky and Ford 1994, Ostrom and Wellnhofer 1986, Parsch 1963, Romer 1956, Romer 1966, Rozhdestvensky 1977, Russell 1984, Sereno 1986, Sereno 1998, Sereno 2000, Sternberg 1951, Swinton 1970, Tanoue et al. 2009, Tatarinov 1964, Tereshchenko and Alifanov 2003, You and Dodson 2003, You and Dodson 2004 and Zheng et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Asiaceratopsinae, Bagaceratops, Breviceratops

Subtaxa: Protoceratops andrewsi Protoceratops hellenikorhinus

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Type: Protoceratops andrewsi

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of China (7 collections), Mongolia (27)

Total: 34 collections including 37 occurrences

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