Turanoceratops

Turanoceratops
Temporal range: Turonian,
Life restoration of Turanoceratops tardabilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Neornithischia
Clade: Ceratopsia
Clade: Euceratopsia
Clade: Coronosauria
Superfamily: Ceratopsoidea
Genus: Turanoceratops
Nesov et al., 1989
Type species
Turanoceratops tardabilis
Nesov et al., 1989

Turanoceratops ("Turan horned face") is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan. The fossils dated from the mid-late Turonian stage, roughly 90 million years ago. The skull bore a pair of long brow horns like those seen in the Ceratopsidae, although Turanoceratops appears to have been transitional between earlier ceratopsians and ceratopsids, and not a ceratopsid itself.


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