This is a lovely example of a baby Ceratopsian. It is one of a group of herbivore dinosaurs. The best known ones are the Triceratops or other varieties from Mongolia however the earliest ones identified come from Gondwana in the Early Cretaceous. This one was at the Australian Dinosaur exhibit at the Geelong Wool Museum. I had heard that some of the Ceratopsian groups had been amalgamated as scientists determined that their neck frill gets hollow as it grows due to weight requirements so some teenage Ceratopsians had been miss-classified as a separate.
Baby Ceratopsian, photo by Ant. 
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