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== Classification ==
''Ceratops'' belonged to the Ceratopsia (the name is Greek for "horned face"), a group of herbivorous dinosaurs with [[parrot]]-like beaks which thrived in [[North America]] and [[Asia]] during the [[Cretaceous Period]], which ended roughly 65 million years ago. It is the first named member of the subfamily popularly known as '''Chasmosaurinae''' which has been renamed '''Ceratopsinae''' under [[ICZN]] rules.
In 1999, Penkalski and Dodson concluded ''Ceratops'' is a [[nomen dubium]] because the material is too meagre. They add that ''[[Avaceratops]]'' appears closely related and may even be a juvenile ''Ceratops'' but there is just not enough material to prove it.
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