Dinosaurs · Ceratopsian

Bagaceratops

Say it Bag-a-ser-a-tops. The name means ‘small-horned face’.

Bagaceratops beside a person 1.75 m tall. Ticks mark every metre.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of ceratopsians
Length
1 m
Diet
Plant-eater
When
Late Cretaceous85 to 80 million years ago
Fossils found in
Mongolia
Named by
Maryanska and Osmolska (1975)
Family tree
Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Ceratopsia › Neoceratopsia › Bagaceratopsidae
TriassicJurassicCretaceousBagaceratops252 Ma66 Ma
Where Bagaceratops sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Ceratopsians. Horned and frilled plant-eaters, such as Triceratops. See all 29

Lived at the same time

Other ceratopsians

Source: Bagaceratops in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.