Back أركيوسيراتوبس Arabic Arqueoceratop Catalan Archaeoceratops Czech Archaeoceratops German Archaeoceratops Spanish باستانشاخچهره Persian Archaeoceratops French ארכיאוצרטופס HE Archaeoceratops Hungarian Archaeoceratops Italian
| Archaeoceratops Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| A. oshimai | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Neornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ceratopsia |
| Clade: | †Neoceratopsia |
| Family: | †Archaeoceratopsidae |
| Genus: | †Archaeoceratops Dong & Azuma, 1997 |
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Archaeoceratops, meaning "ancient horned face", is a genus of basal neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian stage) of north central China. It appears to have been bipedal and quite small, reaching 0.9 m (3.0 ft) in length and 10 kg (22 lb) in body mass.[2] It had a comparatively large head but no horns, possessing only a small bony frill projecting from the back of its head.
- ^ You, Hai-Lu; Tanque, Kyo; Dodson, Peter (2010). "A new species of Archaeoceratops (Dinosauria: Neoceratopsia) from the Early Cretaceous of the Mazongshan area, northwestern China". In Ryan, Michael J.; Chinnery-Allgeier, Brenda J.; Eberth, David A. (eds.). New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. pp. 59–67. ISBN 978-0-253-35358-0.
- ^ Paul, Gregory S. (2016). The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs. Princeton University Press. p. 278. ISBN 978-1-78684-190-2. OCLC 985402380.