Kulceratops Temporal range: late Albian ~105–100 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	†Ornithischia
Clade:	†Neornithischia
Clade:	†Ceratopsia
Clade:	†Neoceratopsia
Genus:	†Kulceratops Nesov, 1995
Type species
†Kulceratops kulensis Nesov, 1995

Kulceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It lived in the late Albian stage. It is one of the few ceratopsians known from this period. However, the fossils from this genus have been sparse: only jaw and tooth fragments have been found so far.

Kulceratops was named by Lev Alexandrovich Nesov in 1995.^[1] The type species is Kulceratops kulensis. Both the genus name and the specific name are derived from the Khodzhakul Formation, kul meaning "lake" in Uzbek. Its fossils were found in Uzbekistan, central Asia. The holotype, CCMGE No. 495/12457, was in 1914 discovered by geologist Andrei Dmitrievich Arkhangelsky. It consists of a left maxilla, of which the front end has been broken off.

Kulceratops 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. As Kulceratops is the oldest known neoceratopian, Nesov assigned it to a special Archaeoceratopsidae. Later workers considered it a member of the Protoceratopidae or at least a basal member of Neoceratopia. Due to the paucity of the remains, it is considered a nomen dubium^{[citation needed]}

Kulceratops, like all ceratopsians, was a herbivore. During the early Cretaceous, flowering plants were "geographically limited on the landscape", and so it is likely that this dinosaur fed on the predominant plants of the era: ferns, cycads and conifers. It would have used its sharp ceratopsian beak to bite off the leaves or needles.

• Timeline of ceratopsian research

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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Clade: Dinosauria Clade: Ornithischia Clade: Marginocephalia Avemetatarsalia see Avemetatarsalia Ornithischia see Ornithischia Ceratopsia see below↓
Ceratopsia Ceratopsia Albalophosaurus Micropachycephalosaurus Psittacosaurus Chaoyangsauridae Chaoyangsaurus Hualianceratops Stenopelix Xuanhuaceratops Yinlong Neoceratopsia Ajkaceratops? Aquilops Auroraceratops Beg Koreaceratops Kulceratops? Liaoceratops Microceratus Mosaiceratops Archaeoceratopsidae Archaeoceratops Helioceratops Yamaceratops? Euceratopsia Graciliceratops Leptoceratopsidae Asiaceratops Bainoceratops Cerasinops Ferrisaurus Gremlin Gryphoceratops Ischioceratops Leptoceratops Montanoceratops Prenoceratops Udanoceratops Unescoceratops Zhuchengceratops Coronosauria Protoceratopsidae Ajkaceratops? Bagaceratops Breviceratops Protoceratops Ceratopsoidea Ajkaceratops? Turanoceratops Zuniceratops Ceratopsidae see below↓
Ceratopsidae Ceratopsidae Agathaumas Brachyceratops Ceratops Dysganus Monoclonius Polyonax Chasmosaurinae Agujaceratops Anchiceratops Arrhinoceratops Bisticeratops Bravoceratops Chasmosaurus Coahuilaceratops Judiceratops Kosmoceratops Mercuriceratops Navajoceratops Pentaceratops Sierraceratops Spiclypeus Terminocavus Utahceratops Vagaceratops Triceratopsini Eotriceratops Nedoceratops Ojoceratops Regaliceratops Tatankaceratops? Titanoceratops Torosaurus Triceratops Centrosaurinae Diabloceratops Machairoceratops Menefeeceratops Sinoceratops Wendiceratops Xenoceratops Albertaceratopsini Albertaceratops Lokiceratops Medusaceratops Nasutoceratopsini Avaceratops Crittendenceratops Furcatoceratops Nasutoceratops Yehuecauhceratops Eucentrosaura Centrosaurini Centrosaurus Coronosaurus Spinops Styracosaurus? Pachyrhinosaurini Achelousaurus Einiosaurus Stellasaurus Pachyrhinosaurus
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