Turanoceratops
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![]() Live reconstruction of Turanoceratops tardabilis |
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Upper Cretaceous (middle to late turonium ) | ||||||||||
92.19 to 89.7 million years | ||||||||||
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Turanoceratops | ||||||||||
Nessov , Kaznyshkina & Cherepanov , 1989 |
Turanoceratops is a little-known genus of bird saurians (Ornithopoda) from the group of Ceratopsia .
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
- 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
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Individual evidence
- ^ 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 .