page_title: Montanoceratops
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Montanoceratops / Description
caption_attribution_description: Montanoceratops cerorhynchus, a ceratopsian from the Late Cretaceous of North America, pencil drawing, digital coloring
context_page_description: 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 3 m long.
context_section_description: Montanoceratops was a typical primitive ceratopsian in many respects, distinguished from the later species by the presence of claws, rather than hooves, and by having teeth in its upper jaw, rather than a toothless beak. It was once thought to have a horn on its nose but that was a misplaced cheek horn.
  According to Brown and Schlaikjer (1935), Montanoceratops can be distinguished based on the following characteristics:
  the nasal bone is proportionally large, deep, heavy and with a very well developed horncore
  the dentary is long with a straight ventral margin
caption: Restoration
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