| Group: | Dinosauria - Ceratopsia |
| Original Specimen Location: | Museum of the Rockies |
| Specimen Number: | MOR 542 |
| Age: | Late Cretaceous |
| Where Found: | St. Mary River Formation, Montana |
| Date Found: | Weishampel and Horner, 1987 |
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| Original Material: | |
| Source: | RCI |
| Type: | Skull |
| 3d Scan: | no |
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Cerapoda
Infraorder: Ceratopsia
Family: Leptoceratopsidae
Genus: Montanoceratops
Species: M. Cerorhynchus
M. cerorhynchus was a small, herbivorous ceratopsian that lived during the late Cretaceous. Its facial adornments were fairly simple by ceratopsian standards, consisting of a small horn on the snout and several behind the cheeks.
Type Species: Montanoceratops cerorhynchus
Brown, B; and Schlaikjer, EM. (1942). The skeleton of Leptoceratops with the description of a new species. American Museum Novitates, No. 1169, pp. 15.
Sternberg, CM. (1951). Complete skeleton of Leptoceratops gracilis Brown from the Upper Edmonton Member on the Red Deer River, Alberta. National Museum of Canada Bulletin Vol. 123.
Locality:
Buffalo Lake, Montana, USA.
Scientific Resources:
Lindgren, J; Currie, PJ; Siverson, M; Rees, J; Cederstroem, P; and Lindgren, F. (2007). The First Neoceratopsian Dinosaur Remains from Europe. Palaeontology, Vol. 50, Issue 4, pp. 929-937.
Chinnery, BJ; and Weishampel, DB. (1998). Montanoceratops cerorhynchus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) and relationships among basal neoceratopsians. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 569–585.