Ajkaceratops
| Ajkaceratops Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Holotype fused rostral and premaxillae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Family: | †Bagaceratopidae |
| Genus: | †Ajkaceratops Ősi et al., 2010 |
| Species: | †A. kozmai
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| Ajkaceratops kozmai Ősi et al., 2010
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Ajkaceratops (pronounced "oi-ka-se-ra-tops") is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur described in 2010. It lived in the Cretaceous period in what is now Europe, in what was back then the Tethyan archipelago. It is a ceratopsian, and is beaked. Ceratops means "horned face" in Greek.
The generic name, Ajkaceratops, honors Ajka, a town in Hungary where the fossils where found.
Description
The Ajkaceratops has a skull that looks a lot like a Protoceratops skull, except that it has a hump near the beak. The body is slender and long, compared to the skull. The tail is very short for its size. Ajkaceratops would have walked quadrupedally and eaten low vegetation.[1] Ajkaceratops may have reached the part of europe in which it was found by Island-hopping.[2][3]
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