Turanoceratops [1] ( lat. Turanoceratops , from Turan and - ceratops ) is a genus of poultry- dinosaurs from the suborder marginocephalus , an infraorder of ceratops . The remains of this dinosaur were discovered on the territory of Uzbekistan in the Kyzylkum desert .
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The lizard lived in the Late Cretaceous (96–65 million years ago). The name of the genus means “Turanian horned muzzle”, possibly by the name of the Turonian layer , to which deposits belong, in which the remains of the lizard were found .
General Description
Turanoceratops was a four-legged, herbivorous, medium-sized dinosaur with a beak, a neck collar and infraorbital horns. Weighed, presumably, 1 ton, was 5 meters long.
Classification
It was perhaps one of the earliest ceratopsids . In 2009, researchers led by Hans-Dieter Sues ( Hans-Dieter Sues ) analyzed additional fossil materials of turanoceratops and came to the conclusion that, contrary to expectations, he belonged to ceratopsids, although it was a transitional link. Syus refers them to Asian ceratopsids, at the time of publication, they were the only known ceratopsids that lived outside of North America [2] .
Some scholars, such as Andrew Farke , did not agree with Suss. Fark and colleagues performed an independent phylogenetic analysis of Turanoceratops fossils and found that it was a close relative of ceratopsid, but did not belong to them [3] . However, Sues and Alexander Averyanov argue that Fark and colleagues are wrong [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Nash D. , Barrett P. Dinosaurs. 150 million years of domination on Earth / scientific. ed. Alexander Averyanov . - M .: Alpina non-fiction, 2018 .-- S. 10 .-- 223 p. - ISBN 978-5-91671-940-6 .
- ↑ Sues, H.-D., and Averianov, A. Turanoceratops tardabilis - the first ceratopsid dinosaur from Asia. (Eng.) // Naturwissenschaften. - 2009. - No. 96 (5) . - P. 645-652 .
- ↑ Farke, A., Sampson, SD, Forster, CA, Loewen, MA Turanoceratops tardabilis - sister taxon, but not a ceratopsid. (Eng.) // Naturwissenschaften. - May 7, 2009. - No. 96 (7) . - P. 869-870 .
- ↑ Sues, H.-D. and Averianov, A. Phylogenetic position of Turanoceratops (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia). (Eng.) // Naturwissenschaften. - May 20, 2009. - No. 96 (7) . - P. 871-872 .