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    description, the generic name, Protoceratops, is intended to mean "first horned face" as it was believed that Protoceratops represented an early ancestor...
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    of Velociraptor, Protoceratops, and modern birds and reptiles indicates that Velociraptor may have been nocturnal, while Protoceratops may have been cathemeral...
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    suggested for the primitive ceratopsian Protoceratops. However, comparisons between the scleral rings of Protoceratops and Psittacosaurus and modern birds...
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    simultaneously burying both Protoceratops and Velociraptor. Alternatively, the Velociraptor may have been scavenging an already dead Protoceratops and then got buried...
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    discovered the primitive ceratopsians Psittacosaurus and Protoceratops in Mongolia. Protoceratops gained notoriety as the supposed parent of the first fossil...
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    Gregory in May 1923 as a monotypic family for Protoceratops andrewsi. Granger and Gregory recognized Protoceratops's close relationship to other ceratopsians...
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    and Halszka Osmólska in 1975 and named as a second species of Protoceratops, Protoceratops kozlowskii, the specific name honouring Polish paleontologist...
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    primitive than Protoceratops and ceratopsids. Neural spines in cervical vertebrae are more slender and longer in Leptoceratops than Protoceratops, but the vertebrae...
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    concentration of Protoceratops fossils and has been noted as the "Protoceratops fauna". Adjacent to Bayn Dzak, at Tugriken Shireh, Protoceratops is also abundant...
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    anagenetic transition from Protoceratops andrewsi to Bagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi. Juvenile remains, at first tentatively named Protoceratops kozlowskii, and then...
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    influenced in part by the fossilized remains of beaked dinosaurs such as Protoceratops and Psittacosaurus that ancient Scythian (Central Asian) nomadic prospectors...
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    ceratopsids, although was present in the more primitive ceratopsian Protoceratops andrewsi whose sexes were distinguishable based on frill and nasal prominence...
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  • very well preserved remains of a Velociraptor, locked in combat with a Protoceratops, a small ceratopsian. Mt. Altai is unusual because the comparative lack...
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    fenestrae such as in hadrosaurs and the dinosaur genus Protoceratops. This closure distinguishes Protoceratops from other ceratopsian dinosaurs. Fenestra (anatomy)...
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    in the Gobi Desert in 1971. It included a Velociraptor attacking a Protoceratops, providing evidence that dinosaurs did indeed attack each other. Additional...
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    from east to west along the silk routes. Mayor draws connections to Protoceratops, a frilled dinosaur and Psittacosaur fossils and dinosaur nests with...
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    on top of a nest erroneously attributed to the ceratopsian dinosaur Protoceratops. However, discoveries in the 1990s, including Citipati specimens clearly...
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    While sexual dimorphism has been proposed for an earlier ceratopsian, Protoceratops, there is no firm evidence for sexual dimorphism in any ceratopsid....
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    74-million-year-old specimen found Mongolia in 1971, in which a Velociraptor and Protoceratops were locked in battle and preserved. The "dueling" inference comes from...
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    given as a result of the initial thought of the nest pertaining to Protoceratops or another ceratopsian. However, Osborn suggested that the name Oviraptor...
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    Protoceratopsidae Ajkaceratops? Bagaceratops Breviceratops Protoceratops Ceratopsoidea...
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    Velociraptor, Saurornithoides, Oviraptor Ornithischians Ceratopsians: Protoceratops Ankylosaurids: Pinacosaurus Colbert, Edwin Harris (1984) The great dinosaur...
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    ceratopsids, although there is evidence that the more primitive ceratopsian Protoceratops andrewsi possessed sexes that were distinguishable based on frill and...
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    Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 April 2025. Protoceratops exhibit Titanophoneus exhibit Raphus exhibit Tarbosaurus exhibit Media...
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    partial proximal parietal is shown to have an inverted "T" shape, as in Protoceratops. Although the first specimen discovered had single-rooted teeth (unusual...
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    and for producing prodigious numbers of dinosaur fossils, especially Protoceratops. Given that Herodotus relates a story of a traveller to the East who...
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  • friend Buck, who saves them from raptors and tells them that a bipedal Protoceratops named Orson, who was ridiculed when he was young for having a massive...
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    Cretaceous Tarbosaurus tyrannosaurid and broadly contemporaneous nests of Protoceratops eggs. The museum was established in 1924 as the National Museum (Mongolian:...
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    Cretaceous and is famous for its dinosaur fossils including Oviraptor, Protoceratops, and Velociraptor. It is also known for a high diversity of mammal and...
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    While sexual dimorphism has been proposed for a more basal ceratopsian, Protoceratops, there is no firm evidence for sexual dimorphism in any ceratopsid....
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