Brachyceratops Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Holotype specimen USNM 7951 mounted in the Smithsonian | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Clade: | †Ceratopsia |
Family: | †Ceratopsidae |
Subfamily: | †Centrosaurinae |
Genus: | †Brachyceratops Gilmore, 1914 |
Species: | †B. montanensis
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Binomial name | |
†Brachyceratops montanensis Gilmore, 1914
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Brachyceratops ('short horned face') is a dubious genus of ceratopsian dinosaur known only from partial juvenile specimens dating to the late Cretaceous Period of Montana, United States.
Brachyceratops has historically been known from juvenile remains, with one specimen having since been re-classified as Rubeosaurus ovatus.[1][2]