Montanoceratops

Montanoceratops is an extinct genus of small ceratopsian dinosaur that lived approximately 70 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period in what is now Montana and Alberta. Montanoceratops was a small sized, moderately-built, ground-dwelling, quadrupedal herbivore, that could grow up to an estimated in length and in body mass.

==Discovery and species== thumb|left|Mounted type skeleton incorrectly restored with nasal horn The first fossil remains of what we now know as Montanoceratops were discovered on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, west of Buffalo Lake, Montana in the St. Mary River Formation. It was collected in 1916 by Barnum Brown and Peter C. Kaisen of the American Museum of Natural History from terrestrial sediments that were deposited during the Maastrichtian stages of the Cretaceous period, approximately 70 million years ago. After having mounted a reconstruction in 1935, Brown and his assistant Erich Maren Schlaikjer named it in 1942 as a new species of Leptoceratops: Leptoceratops cerorhynchus, later the type species of Montanoceratops. The genus name Montanoceratops means "Montana horned face", and is derived from the state of Montana, where the holotype specimen was located, and the Greek words "keras" (κερας) meaning "horn", and "ops" (ωψ) meaning "face". The type and only valid species known today is Montanoceratops cerorhynchus.