Turanoceratops
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| Turanoceratops Fossil range: Late Cretaceous |
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Turanoceratops ("Turan horn face") is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Uzbekistan.
[edit] Classification
Turanoceratops belonged to the Ceratopsia (the name is Greek for "horned face"), a group of herbivorous dinosaurs with parrot-like beaks which thrived in North America and Asia during the Cretaceous Period, which ended roughly 65 million years ago. All ceratopsians became extinct at the end of this era.
[edit] Diet
Turanoceratops, like all ceratopsians, was a herbivore. During the Cretaceous, flowering plants were "geographically limited on the landscape", and so it is likely that this dinosaur fed on the predominant plants of the era: ferns, cycads and conifers. It would have used its sharp ceratopsian beak to bite off the leaves or needles.
[edit] References
- Turanoceratops in The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia at Dino Russ's Lair
- Ceratopsia at Thescelosaurus!
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