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| Rank | species (PBDB) |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Ceratopsidae : Monoclonius : Monoclonius crassus |
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Classification
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Monoclonius crassus | species | belongs to Monoclonius | stated without evidence | Cope, 1876 | | Monoclonius crassus | species | belongs to Monoclonius | stated with evidence | Lull, 1933 | | Monoclonius crassus | species | belongs to Monoclonius | stated without evidence | Chakravarti, 1934 | | Monoclonius crassus | species | belongs to Monoclonius | stated with evidence | Tatarinov, 1964 | | Monoclonius crassus | species | belongs to Monoclonius | stated without evidence | Kuhn, 1964 | | Monoclonius crassus | species | belongs to Monoclonius | stated with evidence | Ostrom and Wellnhofer, 1986 | | Monoclonius crassus | species | belongs to Monoclonius | stated without evidence | Dodson, 1990 | | Monoclonius crassus | species | belongs to Monoclonius | stated with evidence | Dodson et al., 2004 | | Monoclonius crassus | species | nomen dubium Monoclonius | stated without evidence | Ryan et al., 2010 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Ceratopsia) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Diet | herbivore (based on Ceratopsia) |
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| Reproduction | oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Ontogeny | accretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | E. D. Cope. 1876. Descriptions of some vertebrate remains from the Fort Union Beds of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 28:248-261 |
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| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1876 | Monoclonius crassus Cope |
| 1877 | Monoclonius crassus Cope p. 316 |
| 1886 | Monoclonius crassus Cope p. 153 |
| 1887 | Monoclonius crassus Seeley p. 85 |
| 1889 | Monoclonius crassus Cope |
| 1890 | Monoclonius crassus Zittel p. 697 |
| 1902 | Monoclonius crassus Hay p. 499 |
| 1902 | Monoclonius crassus Lambe p. 68 |
| 1905 | Monoclonius crassus Lambe p. 24 |
| 1907 | Monoclonius crassus Hatcher et al. p. 71 |
| 1910 | Monoclonius crassus Lull p. 772 |
| 1914 | Monoclonius crassus Brown pp. 549-551 |
| 1915 | Monoclonius crassus Lambe p. 12 |
| 1917 | Monoclonius crassus Brown p. 285 |
| 1921 | Monoclonius crassus Parks p. 54 |
| 1927 | Monoclonius crassus Huene p. 261 |
| 1930 | Monoclonius crassus Arldt p. 702 |
| 1930 | Monoclonius crassus Russell p. 142 |
| Cope E. D. Descriptions of some vertebrate remains from the Fort Union Beds of Montana, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 28, 248-261 |
| Cope E. D. The horned Dinosauria of the Laramie, The American Naturalist 23, 715-717 |
| Zittel K. A. v. , Handbuch der Palaeontologie. I. Abteilung Paleozoologie. III. Band. Vertebrata (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves) [Handbook of Paleontology. Division I. Paleozoology. Volume III. Vertebrata (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves)], xii-900 |
| Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868 |
| Lambe L. M. (1902) New genera and species from the Belly River Series (mid-Cretaceous), Geological Survey of Canada Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 3 2, 25-81 |
| Hatcher J. B., Marsh O. C., et al (1907) The Ceratopsia, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 49, 1-198 |
| Brown B. (1914) A complete skull of Monoclonius, from the Belly River Cretaceous of Alberta, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33 34, 549-558 |
| Lambe L. M. (1915) On Eoceratops canadensis, gen. nov., with remarks on other genera of Cretaceous horned dinosaurs, Canada Geological Survey Museum Bulletin 12, Geological Series 24, 1-49 |
| Brown B. (1917) A complete skeleton of the horned dinosaur Monoclonius, and description of a second skeleton showing skin impressions, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 37 10, 281-306 |
| Parks W. A. (1921) The head and fore limb of a specimen of Centrosaurus apertus, Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series 3 15 section 4, 53-62 |
| Huene F. v. (1927) Contribución a la paleogeografía de Sud América [Contribution to the paleogeography of South America], Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la República Argentina 30, 231-294 |
| Lull R. S. (1933) A revision of the Ceratopsia or horned dinosaurs, Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 3 3, 1-175 |
| Chakravarti D. K. (1934) On a stegosaurian humerus from the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore, Quarterly Journal of the Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical Society of India 6 3, 75-79 |
| Sternberg C. M. (1938) Monoclonius from southeastern Alberta compared with Centrosaurus, Journal of Paleontology 12 3, 284-286 |
| Sternberg C. M. (1940) Ceratopsidae from Alberta, Journal of Paleontology 14 5, 468-480 |
| Russell L. S. (1964) Cretaceous non-marine faunas of northwestern North America, Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contribution 61, 1-24 |
| Tatarinov L. P. (1964) Nadotryad Dinosauria. Dinozavry [Superorder Dinosauria. Dinosaurs], Osnovy Paleontologii [Fundamentals of Paleontology] 12, 523-589 |
| Russell L. S. (1966) Dinosaur hunting in western Canada, Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contribution 70, 1-37 |
| Langston W. (1975) The ceratopsian dinosaurs and associated lower vertebrates from the St. Mary River Formation (Maestrichtian) at Scabby Butte, southern Alberta, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 12, 1576-1608 |
| Russell D. A. (1984) A check list of the families and genera of North American dinosaurs, Syllogeus 53, 1-35 |
| Ostrom J. H., Wellnhofer P. (1986) The Munich specimen of Triceratops with a revision of the genus, Zitteliana 14, 111-158 |
| Dodson P., Currie P. J. (1990) Neoceratopsia, The Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley, 593-618 |
| Dodson P., Forster C. A., et al (2004) Ceratopsidae, In D. B. Weishampel, P. Dodson & H. Osmólska (eds.), The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 494-513 |
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