Asiaceratops

Field photograph to come

DV-0326Khodzhakul Fm., Uzbekistan

Asiaceratops

DV-0326

Lived
101 to 94 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Ceratopsians
Found in
Uzbekistan
Named by
Nessov et al. 1989

Field notes

About Asiaceratops

Asiaceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 94 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 8 finds of Asiaceratops, from Uzbekistan. Its fossils come from the Khodzhakul Formation. It was named by Nessov et al. in 1989.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

8 finds

95 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Neoceratopsia.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: 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