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