Turanoceratops
Field photograph to come
Turanoceratops
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- 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
90 million years ago
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