Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Ceratopsia › Protoceratopsidae
Protoceratops
Protoceratops hellenikorhinus Lambert et al. 2001
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 83.6–72.2 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Protoceratops hellenikorhinus is a ceratopsian dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–72.2 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by Lambert et al. 2001. The species is represented by 6 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~21%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 6 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Protoceratops sits in deep time
Protoceratops
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Protoceratops's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.