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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Turanoceratops
Turanoceratops
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Neornithischia Unranked clade
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Pyrodontia Unranked clade
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Cerapoda Unranked clade
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Marginocephalia Unranked clade
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Ceratopsia Suborder
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Neoceratopsia Infraorder
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Coronosauria Unranked clade
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Ceratopsoidea Superfamily
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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 2
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