Species
Valid Extinct

Leptoceratops gracilis

Brown 1914

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
5
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Ornithischia Unranked clade
Neornithischia Unranked clade
Pyrodontia Unranked clade
Cerapoda Unranked clade
Marginocephalia Unranked clade
Ceratopsia Suborder
Neoceratopsia Infraorder
Leptoceratopsidae Family
Leptoceratops Genus
Leptoceratops gracilis Species
Fossil sites 5 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
3
🇨🇦 Canada
2
Geological formations
Scollard
2
"Lance"
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
5
Bibliography
Original description
B. Brown. 1914. Leptoceratops, a new genus of Ceratopsia from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33(36):567-580
Bibliography (4)
C. J. Ott. 2007. Cranial anatomy and biogeography of the first Leptoceratops gracilis (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) specimens from the Hell Creek Formation, southeast Montana. Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs
J. H. Ostrom. 1978. <i>Leptoceratops gracilis</i> from the "Lance" Formation of Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 52(3):697-704
C. M. Sternberg. 1950. Leptoceratops, the most primitive horned dinosaur, from the Upper Edmonton of Alberta. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series 3 44:229
B. Brown. 1914. Leptoceratops, a new genus of Ceratopsia from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33(36):567-580