Turanoceratops

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Turanoceratops
Live reconstruction of Turanoceratops tardabilis

Live reconstruction of Turanoceratops tardabilis

Temporal occurrence
Upper Cretaceous (middle to late turonium )
92.19 to 89.7 million years
Locations
Systematics
Cerapoda
Marginocephalia
Ceratopsia
Neoceratopsia
Turanoceratops
Scientific name
Turanoceratops
Nessov , Kaznyshkina & Cherepanov , 1989

Turanoceratops is a little-known genus of bird saurians (Ornithopoda) from the group of Ceratopsia .

Size comparison of Turanoceratops tardabilis with a human

From Turanoceratops only a part of are far upper jaw including the teeth, fragments of other bones of the skull, vertebrae and possibly a part of the shoulder blade known. These finds suggest a small representative of the Ceratopsia, but more precise information is not possible, which is why Turanoceratops is considered a nomen dubium . However, it is debatable whether all the fossils found belong to one species.

The fossil remains of Turanoceratops were discovered in the Kyzylkum desert in the Turan lowlands in present-day Uzbekistan and first described in 1989 . The genus name is derived from the place where it was found and the Greek keratops (= "horn face"), a common part of the Ceratopsia name. The type and only known species is T. tardabilis .

The finds are dated in the early Upper Cretaceous (middle to late Turonian ) to an age of around 92 to 89 million years.

literature

Web links

Commons : Turanoceratops  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gregory S. Paul : The Princeton Field Guide To Dinosaurs. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ et al. 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-13720-9 , p. 258, online .