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Protoceratops were small ceratopsians, up to 2–2.5 m (6.6–8.2 ft) long and around 62–104 kg (137–229 lb) in body mass. While adults were largely quadrupedal, juveniles had the capacity to walk around bipedally if necessary. They were characterized by a proportionally large skull, short and stiff neck, and neck frill.
Size and Weight Estimates. Adult Protoceratops measured approximately 2 to 2.5 meters (6.6 to 8.2 feet) in length. Estimates suggest they weighed around 62 to 104 kilograms (137 to 229 pounds), making them small to medium-sized dinosaurs within their group.
Although small for a ceratopsian, Protoceratops was still a relatively large animal. Adults were about 1.8 metres (6 feet) long and would have weighed about 180 kg (400 pounds). The skull was very long, about one-fifth the total body length. Bones in the skull grew backward into a perforated frill.
Protoceratops was a small to medium-sized dinosaur, measuring up to 2 meters (6.5 feet) in length and weighing up to 180 kilograms (400 pounds). It had a relatively short, bulky body with four sturdy legs and a long tail.
The skull of Protoceratops was notably large in proportion to its body, robustly built, and varied in size between species. The type species, P. andrewsi , had an average skull length of nearly 20 inches, whereas P. hellenikorhinus had a skull length of about 28 inches.
Length: 1.8 m. Weight: 400 kg. Diet: herbivorous. Teeth: shearing and grinding teeth with a horny beak at the front. Food: plant material. How it moved: on 4 legs. When it lived: Late Cretaceous, 74-70 million years ago. Found in: China, Mongolia. One Protoceratops specimen was fossilised while being attacked by Velociraptor. Taxonomic details.
Protoceratops is an extinct genus of ceratopsian dinosaur that lived around 86-71 million years ago. They were much smaller in size and lacked well-developed horn, unlike other ceratopsians. This genus has two recognized species – Protoceratops andrewsi (type species) and Protoceratops hellenikorhinus.
Based on the size of its sclerotic ring, Protoceratops had an unusually large eye among protoceratopsids. In birds, a medium-sized sclerotic ring indicates that the animal is a predator, a large sclerotic ring indicates that it is nocturnal, and the largest ring size indicates it is a nocturnal predator.
Protoceratops is believed to have been the size of a sheep when fully grown, albeit a very heavy sheep. It was approximately 6 to 8 feet long, 3 feet tall and weighed around a ton. It walked on all four legs, had a bird like beak, teeth in its cheek, and a frill that came from the back of its skull.
Facts on the Protoceratops. 1. Protoceratops means ‘first horned face’ 2. Its average size was about 1.8 meters long and 1 meters high 3. The average weight of the dinosaur was 400kg (900 pounds) 4. Protoceratops belonged to the group of Ceratopsians (Ceratopians) 5. It was a herbivore and ate tough leaves and plants 6.