Protoceratops
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| Protoceratops Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous |
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| Protoceratops skeleton at Wyoming Dinosaur Center. | |
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Fossil
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | Cerapoda |
| Infraorder: | Ceratopsia |
| Family: | Protoceratopsidae |
| Genus: | Protoceratops |
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P. andrewsi (type) |
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Protoceratops was a ceratopsian dinosaur from Mongolia. It was shown in a fossil being attacked by a Velociraptor.
