Ajkaceratops
Ajkaceratops (pronounced "oi-ka-se-ra-tops") is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur described in 2010. It lived in the Cretaceous period in what is now Europe, in what was back then the Tethyan archipelago. It is a ceratopsian, and is beaked. Ceratops means "horned face" in Greek.
| Ajkaceratops | |
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| Holotype fused rostral and premaxillae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Family: | †Bagaceratopidae |
| Genus: | †Ajkaceratops Ősi et al., 2010 |
| Species: | †A. kozmai |
| Binomial name | |
| Ajkaceratops kozmai Ősi et al., 2010 | |
The generic name, Ajkaceratops, honors Ajka, a town in Hungary where the fossils where found.
Description
The Ajkaceratops has a skull that looks a lot like a Protoceratops skull, except that it has a hump near the beak. The body is slender and long, compared to the skull. The tail is very short for its size.
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