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Liaoceratops
Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liaoceratops, meaning "Liaoning horned face", is a ceratopsian dinosaur believed to be an early relative of the horned ceratopsids. It lived in the Early Cretaceous, 126 million years ago.[1] It was discovered in China by a team of American and Chinese scientists. Liaoceratops was much smaller than its later relatives, but offers a glimpse into the early evolution of this group of dinosaurs.
![Artist's reconstruction of ceratopsian dinosaur Liaoceratops yanzigouensis](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Liaoceratops_BW.jpg/640px-Liaoceratops_BW.jpg)
![Skull diagram of ceratopsian dinosaur Liaoceratops yanzigouensis](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Liaoceratops_skull.png/640px-Liaoceratops_skull.png)
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Liaoceratops | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Clade: | †Ceratopsia |
Clade: | †Neoceratopsia |
Genus: | †Liaoceratops Xu et al., 2002 |
Type species | |
Liaoceratops yanzigouensis Xu et al., 2002 |
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