Ceratopsia or Ceratopia is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Asia and Europe, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Late Jurassic of Asia. The earliest known ceratopsian, Yinlong downsi, lived between 161.2 and 155.7 million years ago. The last ceratopsian species, Triceratops prorsus, became extinct during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, 66 million years ago.
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A Prenoceratops from Pondera Co., Montana now in the permanent collection of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.
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B. J. Chinnery, T. R. Lipka, and J. I. Kirkland, J. M. Parrish, M. K. Brett-Surman. 1998. Neoceratopsian teeth from the Lower to Middle Cretaceous of North America. Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:297-302