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{{Short description|Extinct genus of dinosaurs}}
{{Mergeto|Bagaceratops|date=March 2021}}
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| fossil_range = [[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]], {{Fossil range|75|72}}
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| taxon = Platyceratops
| authority = Alifanov, 2003
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = ''Platyceratops tatarinovi'' <small>Alifanov, 2003 [[Biology:Type species|type]]</small>
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'''''Platyceratops''''' is a [[Biology:Genus|genus]] of [[Biology:Ceratopsia|ceratopsia]]n [[Biology:Dinosaur|dinosaur]] from the Late [[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]] of Mongolia. It lived during the [[Earth:Campanian|Campanian]] stage, about 75-72 million years ago. The name ''Platyceratops'' is derived from Greek, and means "flat horned face". ''Platyceratops'' is similar to ''Bagaceratops'', although its skull is larger. It has been referred to the Bagaceratopidae or at least the Neoceratopsia. It is possibly a junior synonym of ''Bagaceratops''.<ref name="MN06" /> The type species is ''Platyceratops tatarinovi'', described by Alifanov in 2003.

==Classification==
''Platyceratops'' belonged to the Ceratopsia (the name is [[Social:Ancient Greek|Greek]] for "horned face"), a group of herbivorous dinosaurs with [[Biology:Parrot|parrot]]-like beaks that thrived in [[Earth:North America|North America]] and [[Earth:Asia|Asia]] during the Cretaceous Period. The validity of ''Platyceratops'' remains in doubt. Both ''Platyceratops'' and ''Bagaceratops'' were found at the same locality, the Red Beds at Khermeen Tsav, which raises the possibility that they are in fact the same species.<ref name=MN06>{{cite journal |last=Makovicky |first=Peter J. |author2=Norell, Mark A.  |year=2006 |title=''Yamaceratops dorngobiensis'', a new primitive ceratopsian (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Cretaceous of Mongolia |journal=American Museum Novitates |volume=3530 |pages=1–42 |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5808/1/N3530.pdf |format=pdf |doi=10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3530[1:YDANPC]2.0.CO;2}}</ref>

==Diet==
''Platyceratops'', like all ceratopsians, was a [[Earth:Herbivore|herbivore]].

==See also==
* [[Biology:Timeline of ceratopsian research|Timeline of ceratopsian research]]

==References==
* V. R. Alifanov. 2003. Two new dinosaurs of the infraorder Neoceratopsia (Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Nemegt Depression, Mongolian People's Republic. ''Paleontological Journal'' '''37'''(5):524-534.
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* http://dml.cmnh.org/2004Sep/msg00359.html

==External links==
* [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/dino-directory/detail.dsml?Genus=Platyceratops ''Platyceratops'' in the Dino Directory]

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[[Category:Ceratopsians]]



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