Protoceratops3

=Protoceratops; (pronounced PRO-toh-SER-ah-tops)=
 * First " Horned Face".
 * Walked on four legs.
 * Had a large head, a big body, a parrot-like beak, and a small frill.
 * Males may have had larger frills than females because they may have useed them to mate. [[image:http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/dinosaur/dinosmal.gif width="100" height="75" align="right" link="http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/dinosaur/dinopages.htm"]]
 * Were about 6 to 8.2 feet or 1.5 to 2.5 meters.
 * Weighted about 900 pounds.
 * Was about three feet tall from the legs to the top of the shoulders.
 * Lived in the late Cretaceous period about 86 to 71 million years ago.
 * Lived toward the end of the Mesozoic; the Age of the Reptiles. [[image:http://www.enchantedlearning.com/mgifs/Mapmongolia.GIF width="338" height="191" align="right"]]
 * May have traveled in herds because people are finding bones of the same speices and large nests.
 * These nest held 12 or more eggs.
 * Was a plant eater.
 * Walked on 4 legs and was a slow dinosaur.
 * First discovered in Mongolia.
 * Is a ornithischian dinosaur ( bird-hipped).