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Bison alticornis [see Triceratops alticornis]
> Brachyceratops montanus

> Brachyceratops montanensus - Gilmore 1914  
Catalogue: USNM 7951
Material: partial skull and frill
Classification: Ornithischia, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Ceratopsidae
Collected: August, 1913
Place: Two Medicine Formation, along the Milk River, Montana, USA
Time: Campanian, Late Cretaceous
Original Publication: C. W. Gilmore. 1914. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 63:1-10
Other References: Sampson, 1995

This ceratopsian specimen was collected in 1913, and represents a juvenile individual. It has been considered a “baby” Styracosaurus but unfortunately its true identity cannot be determined with certainty. The young of different ceratopsian species often look similar, because they lack the characteristic horns and spikes seen in the adults.