Turanoceratops Turanoceratops
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Turanoceratops 2 m (6.6 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 2 m (6.6 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- Uzbekistan
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.
What we know
- Named by Nesov et al., 1989.
- Body length estimated at about 2 m.
- Fossils found in Uzbekistan.