Breviceratops kozlowskii
Breviceratops is a genus of protoceratopsid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now the Barun Goyot Formation, Mongolia.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BreviceratopsPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ceratopsia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ceratopsia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ceratopsia
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Breviceratops kozlowskii on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Breviceratops kozlowskii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Breviceratops kozlowskii and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Breviceratops kozlowskii and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Adamisaurus magnidentatus1 site
- Ankylosauridae1 site
- Asioryctes nemegtensis1 site
- Aves1 site
- Barunlestes butleri1 site
- Catopsbaatar catopsaloides1 site
- Chulsanbaatar vulgaris1 site
- Deltatheridium pretrituberculare tardum1 site
- Dendroolithus1 site
- Desertiguana gobiensis1 site
- Eoxanta lacertifrons1 site
- Gilmoreteius chulsanensis1 site
- Gilmoreteius gilmorei1 site
- Globaura venusta1 site
- Gobiderma pulchra1 site
- Gobipteryx minuta1 site
- Gobiulus sabulosus1 site
- Igua minuta1 site
- Nemegtbaatar gobiensis1 site
- Paravaranus angustifrons1 site
- Parviderma inexacta1 site
- Polrussia mongoliensis1 site
- Priscagama gobiensis1 site
- Proplatynotia longirostrata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Breviceratops kozlowskii, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Ontogeny and variation of a protoceratopsid dinosaur Bagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi from the Late Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert1
- Protoceratopsidae (Dinosauria) of Asia1
Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Breviceratops kozlowskii
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- PaleoNeolitic
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Breviceratops kozlowskii was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBreviceratops through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Maryanska and Osmólska 1975)