Breviceratops

Breviceratops, whose name means short horned face, is a genus of protoceratopsid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now the Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia. The first fossils were found in the 1960s by the Polish expedition to the Nemegt Basin of the Gobi Desert and were first described in 1975 as a second species of Protoceratops. Sergei Kurzanov gave the animal its own genus in 1990, combining the Latin word for short with a reference to the Ceratopsia. The holotype is a partial juvenile skeleton with skull from the Khulsan locality, and many specimens once referred to it have since been reassigned to the related Bagaceratops, so the genus is now restricted to the holotype and one further skull. Its skull combined primitive features such as premaxillary teeth with a narrow antorbital fenestra and a moderately pronounced neck frill. A 2019 study placed it in the Protoceratopsidae.