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TURANOCERATOPS
(tu-ran-o-se-rah-tops)
meaning: "Turan horned face"
Turanoceratops
Named By: L. A. Nessov, L. F. Kaznyshkina & G. O. Cherepanov in 1989
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 90 Ma
Location: Uzbekistan - Bissekty Formation
Size: Estimated about 2 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial remains of several individuals
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ceratopsoidea |
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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.

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