Turanoceratops

Field photograph to come

DV-0330Bissekty Fm., Uzbekistan

Turanoceratops

DV-0330

Lived
94 to 90 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Ceratopsians
Found in
Uzbekistan
Named by
Nessov et al. 1989

Field notes

About Turanoceratops

Turanoceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 94 to 90 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 6 finds of Turanoceratops, from Uzbekistan. Its fossils come from the Bissekty Formation. It was named by Nessov et al. in 1989.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

6 finds

90 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Ceratopsoidea.

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