Thursday, December 10, 2015

The Giving of December. Graciliceratops


The type specimen was originally assigned to the genus Microceratops‭ (‬now a synonym to Microceratus‭)‬,‭ ‬Graciliceratops seems to have‭ ‬been a small and lightly built‭ ‬ceratopsian dinosaur.‭ ‬Graciliceratops seems to have been more comfortable in a bipedal posture,‭ ‬but already it is clear that Graciliceratops would have been easily able to adopt a quadrupedal posture when browsing upon low growing vegetation.‭ ‬The mouth of Graciliceratops had already formed a shearing beak which would have been capable of shearing off parts of plants.

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