Asiaceratops
| Asiaceratops | ||||||||||
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| Lower Cretaceous (late Cenomanian to Turonian ) | ||||||||||
| 95.5 to 89.7 million years | ||||||||||
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| Scientific name | ||||||||||
| Asiaceratops | ||||||||||
| Nessov , Kaznyshkina & Cherepanov , 1989 |
Asiaceratops is a little-known genus of pelvic dinosaurs (Ornithopoda) from the group of Ceratopsia .
So far, only teeth, skull fragments and possibly toe bones are known of this dinosaur. The finds are too sparse for a more precise systematic classification, so that Asiaceratops is considered a nomen dubium .
The fossil remains of this dinosaur were found in the Khodzhakul 'formation in Uzbekistan and first described in 1989 . The generic name means "Asian horn face", the type species is A. salsopaludalis . The finds are dated to the early Upper Cretaceous (late Cenomanian or Turonian ) to an age of around 95 to 89 million years.
literature
- You Hailu, Peter Dodson : Basal Ceratopsia. In: David B. Weishampel , Peter Dodson, Halszka Osmólska (eds.): The Dinosauria . 2nd edition. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 2004, ISBN 0-520-24209-2 , pp. 478-493, digitized version (PDF; 807.25 kB) .