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 | |
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.