Genus
Valid Extinct

Turanoceratops

Nessov et al. 1989

Turanoceratops 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.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
6
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Turanoceratops
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PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Ornithischia Unranked clade
Neornithischia Unranked clade
Pyrodontia Unranked clade
Cerapoda Unranked clade
Marginocephalia Unranked clade
Ceratopsia Suborder
Neoceratopsia Infraorder
Coronosauria Unranked clade
Ceratopsoidea Superfamily
Turanoceratops Genus
Fossil sites 6 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
6
Geological formations
Temporal distribution
Turonian (93.9–89.8 Ma)
6
Species (1)
Turanoceratops tardabilis 94 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
L. A. Nessov, L. F. Kaznyshkina, and G. O. Cherepanov. 1989. [Mesozoic ceratopsian dinosaurs and crocodiles of central Asia]. In Bogdanova and Khozatskii (eds.), Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Modern Palaeontology
Bibliography (1)
L. A. Nessov. 1995. Dinozavri severnoi Yevrazii: Novye dannye o sostave kompleksov, ekologii i paleobiogeografii [Dinosaurs of northern Eurasia: new data about assemblages, ecology, and paleobiogeography]. Institute for Scientific Research on the Earth's Crust, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg