Reptilia - Ornithischia - Protoceratopsidae
Alternative combination: Protoceratops hellinkorhinus
Full reference: O. Lambert, P. Godefroit, H. Li, C.-Y. Shang, and Z.-M. Dong. 2001. A new species of Protoceratops (Dinosauria, Neoceratopsia) from the Late Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia (P. R. China). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Science de la Terre 71(supplement):5-28
Belongs to Protoceratops according to Y.-N. Lee et al. 2010
See also Alifanov 2008, Chen 2017, Czepiński 2020, Fastovsky et al. 2011, Godefroit et al. 2008, Handa et al. 2012, Hone et al. 2014, Lambert et al. 2001, Longrich et al. 2010, Morschhauser et al. 2019, Son et al. 2022 and You and Dodson 2004
Sister taxon: Protoceratops andrewsi
Type specimen: IMM 95BM1/1. Its type locality is SBDE Quarry 95BM1 Bayan Mandahu, which is in a Campanian eolian sandstone in the Bayan Mandahu Formation of China.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (6 collections)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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