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Turanoceratops tardabilis

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"Turanoceratops tardabilis from the Upper Cretaceous
(Turonian) Bissekty Formation of Dzharakuduk,
Uzbekistan, represents the first definite ceratopsid dinosaur
recorded from Asia. Reexamination of the original and
study of newly collected material indicate that Turanoceratops
has well-developed supraorbital horns and apparently
lacks a nasal horn. Turanoceratops is more derived than the
more or less coeval Zuniceratops from the Moreno Hill
Formation of New Mexico in the presence of double-rooted
teeth and of two or three teeth in each vertical dental file".

Hans-Dieter Sues & Alexander Averianov
Turanoceratops tardabilis—the first ceratopsid dinosaur
from Asia (Naturwissenschaften, 2009)

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Turanoceratops is nested within Ceratopsidae
and placed as the sister-taxon to Centrosaurinae.
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EmperorDinobot's avatar
That does look more advanced than Zuniceratops.