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