Turanoceratops

• Uzbekistan

Turanoceratops is a little known species of bird Beck dinosaurs ( ornithopods ) from the group of ceratopsians.

From Turanoceratops only a part of the upper jaw, including teeth, fragments of other bones of the skull, vertebrae and possibly a part of the scapula are previously known. These findings make a small representative of the Ceratopsia guess, but further details are not possible, which is why Turanoceratops nomen dubium is considered. However, it is debatable whether all fossils found belong to one species.

The fossil remains of Turanoceratops were discovered in the Kyzyl Kum desert in the lowlands of Turan in present-day Uzbekistan and first described in 1989. The genus name is derived from the locality and the Greek keratops ( = " horn face" ), a common name component of the ceratopsians, from. Type species and only known species is T. tardabilis.

The finds are (medium to late Turonian ) dated to the early Cretaceous to an age of around 92-89 million years