Leptoceratopsids Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Montage of three leptoceratopsids, clockwise from top left: Prenoceratops, Montanoceratops and Leptoceratops. | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Clade: | †Ceratopsia |
Clade: | †Euceratopsia |
Family: | †Leptoceratopsidae Nopcsa, 1923 |
Type species | |
†Leptoceratops gracilis Brown, 1914
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Genera | |
Leptoceratopsidae is an extinct family of neoceratopsian dinosaurs from Asia, North America and Europe. Leptoceratopsids resembled, and were closely related to, other neoceratopsians, such as the families Protoceratopsidae and Ceratopsidae, but they were more primitive and generally smaller.
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