Protoceratops

Protoceratops
Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous
Protoceratops skeleton at Wyoming Dinosaur Center.
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
Ornithischia
Suborder:
Cerapoda
Infraorder:
Ceratopsia
Family:
Protoceratopsidae
Genus:
Protoceratops
Groups

P. andrewsi (type)
P. hellenikorhinus

Protoceratops was a ceratopsian dinosaur from Mongolia. It was shown in a fossil being attacked by a Velociraptor.

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