| Description | Centrosaurus (SEN-tro-SAWR-əs) is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Canada. Their remains have been found in the Dinosaur Park Formation, dating from 76.5 to 75.5 million years ago.
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| Rank | genus |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Ceratopsidae : Centrosaurus |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Ceratopsidae : Centrosaurus |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Scientific Name | Centrosaurus Fitzinger, 1843 |
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| Name Published In | Syst. Rept., 78 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Ceratopsidae | stated without evidence | Lambe, 1905 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Agathaumidae | stated without evidence | Lull, 1906 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Ceratopsidae | stated without evidence | Huene, 1909 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Centrosaurinae | stated without evidence | Lambe, 1915 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Ceratopsidae | stated without evidence | Abel, 1924 | | Centrosaurus | genus | subjective synonym of Monoclonius | stated with evidence | Lull, 1924 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Ceratopsidae | stated without evidence | Gregory and Mook, 1925 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Ceratopsidae | stated with evidence | Lull, 1933 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Ceratopsidae | stated without evidence | Parks, 1935 | | Centrosaurus | genus | subjective synonym of Monoclonius | implied | Romer, 1956 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Ceratopsidae | stated without evidence | Parsch, 1963 | | Centrosaurus | genus | subjective synonym of Monoclonius | stated with evidence | Tatarinov, 1964 | | Centrosaurus | genus | subjective synonym of Monoclonius | stated without evidence | Kuhn, 1964 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Ceratopsidae | implied | Romer, 1966 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Ceratopsidae | stated without evidence | Molnar, 1980 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Ceratopsidae | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Centrosaurus | genus | replaced by Eucentrosaurus | stated without evidence | Chure and McIntosh, 1989 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Centrosaurinae | stated with evidence | Dodson and Currie, 1990 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Centrosaurinae | stated without evidence | Dodson, 1990 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Ceratopsidae | stated without evidence | Makovicky, 2001 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Centrosaurinae | stated without evidence | Ryan and Russell, 2003 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Ceratopsidae | stated without evidence | You and Dodson, 2003 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Centrosaurinae | stated with evidence | Dodson et al., 2004 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Centrosaurinae | stated without evidence | Farke, 2004 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Ceratopsidae | stated without evidence | Longrich, 2008 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Centrosaurinae | stated with evidence | Longrich, 2010 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Centrosaurinae | stated without evidence | Ryan et al., 2010 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Centrosaurinae | stated with evidence | Farke et al., 2011 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Centrosaurinae | stated without evidence | Maidment and Barrett, 2011 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Centrosaurinae | stated with evidence | Fiorillo and Tykoski, 2012 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Centrosaurinae | stated without evidence | Ryan et al., 2012 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Centrosaurinae | stated with evidence | Evans and Ryan, 2015 | | Centrosaurus | genus | belongs to Centrosaurini | stated with evidence | Ryan et al., 2017 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 83.5 - 66.0 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) | L. M. Lambe. 1905. On the squamoso-parietal crest of the horned dinosaurs Centrosaurus apertus and Monoclonius canadensis from the Cretaceous of Alberta. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series 2 10(4):1-9 |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrosaurus |
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| Lambe L. M. (1905) On the squamoso-parietal crest of the horned dinosaurs Centrosaurus apertus and Monoclonius canadensis from the Cretaceous of Alberta, Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series 2 10 4, 1-9 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sternberg C. M. (1940) Ceratopsidae from Alberta, Journal of Paleontology 14 5, 468-480 |
| Sternberg C. M. (1949) The Edmonton fauna and description of a new Triceratops from the Upper Edmonton Member: phylogeny of the Ceratopsidae, National Museum of Canada Bulletin 113, 33-46 |
| Romer A. S. (1966) , Vertebrate Paleontology, 3rd edition, 1-468 |
| Molnar R. E. (1980) Australian late Mesozoic continental tetrapods: some implications, Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série 139, 131-143 |
| Lehman T. M. (1981) The Alamo Wash local fauna: a new look at the old Ojo Alamo fauna, Advances in San Juan Basin Paleontology. New Mexico University Press, Albuquerque, 189-221 |
| McIntosh J. S. (1981) Annotated catalogue of the dinosaurs (Reptilia, Archosauria) in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 18, 1-67 |
| Russell D. A. (1984) A check list of the families and genera of North American dinosaurs, Syllogeus 53, 1-35 |
| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| Dodson P., Currie P. J. (1990) Neoceratopsia, The Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley, 593-618 |
| Sampson S. D. (1994) Two new horned dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation, Montana, USA, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14 3, suppl., 44A |
| Lehman T. M. (1996) A horned dinosaur from the El Picacho Formation of West Texas, and review of ceratopsian dinosaurs from the American Southwest, Journal of Paleontology 70 3, 494-508 |
| Eberth D. A., Currie P. J., et al (2001) Alberta's dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates: Judith River and Edmonton groups (Campanian-Maastrichtian), In C. L. Hill (ed), Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 61st Annual Meeting, Bozeman. Guidebook for the Field Trips: Mesozoic and Cenozoic Paleontology in the Western Plains and Rocky Mountains, Museum of the Rockies Occasional Paper 3, 49-75 |
| Makovicky P. J. (2001) A Montanoceratops cerorhynchus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) braincase from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, D. H. Tanke and K. Carpenter (eds.), Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 243-262 |
| Ryan M. J., Russell A. P. (2003) New centrosaurine ceratopsids from the late Campanian of Alberta and Montana and a review of contemporaneous and regional patterns of centrosaurine evolution, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 3, 91A |
| You H.-L., Dodson P. (2003) Redescription of neoceratopsian dinosaur Archaeoceratops and early evolution of Neoceratopsia, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48 2, 261-272 |
| 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 |
| Farke A. A. (2004) Ceratopsid dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous Almond Formation of southwestern Wyoming, Rocky Mountain Geology 39 1, 1-5 |
| Ryan M. J., Russell A. P. (2005) A new centrosaurine ceratopsid from the Oldman Formation of Alberta and its implications for centrosaurine taxonomy and systematics, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42, 1369-1387 |
| Ryan M. J. (2007) A new basal centrosaurine ceratopsid from the Oldman Formation, southeastern Alberta, Journal of Paleontology 81 2, 376-396 |
| Longrich N. (2008) A new, large ornithomimid from the Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada: implications for the study of dissociated dinosaur remains, Palaeontology 51 4, 983-997 doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00791.x |
| Longrich N. R. (2010) Mojoceratops perifania, a new chasmosaurine ceratopsid from the late Campanian of western Canada, Journal of Paleontology 84 4, 681-694 doi:10.1666/09-114.1 |
| McDonald A. T., Horner J. R. (2010) New material of "Styracosaurus" ovatus from the Two Medicine Formation of Montana, New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 156-168 |
| Ryan M. J., Russell A. P., et al (2010) A new chasmosaurine ceratopsid from the Judith River Formation, Montana, New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 181-188 |
| Xu X., Wang K.-B., et al (2010) First ceratopsid dinosaur from China and its biogeographical implications, Chinese Science Bulletin 55 16, 1631-1635 doi:10.1007/s11434-009-3614-5 |
| Farke A. A., Ryan M. J., et al (2011) A new centrosaurine from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, and the evolution of parietal ornamentation in horned dinosaurs, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 4, 691-702 doi:10.4202/app.2010.0121 |
| Maidment S. C. R., Barrett P. M. (2011) A new specimen of Chasmosaurus belli (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae), a revision of the genus, and the utility of postcrania in the taxonomy and systematics of ceratopsid dinosaurs, Zootaxa 2963, 1-17 |
| McDonald A. T. (2011) A subadult specimen of Rubeosaurus ovatus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae), with observations on other ceratopsids from the Two Medicine Formation, PLoS ONE 6 8, e22710:1-12 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022710 |
| Fiorillo A. R., Tykoski R. S. (2012) A new Maastrichtian species of the centrosaurine ceratopsid Pachyrhinosaurus from the North Slope of Alaska, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 3, 561-573 |
| Ryan M. J., Evans D. C., et al (2012) New leptoceratopsids from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, Cretaceous Research 35 1, 69-80 doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.11.018 |
| Holmes R. B., Ryan M. J. (2013) The postcranial skeleton of Styracosaurus albertensis, Kirtlandia 58, 5-37 |
| Evans D. C., Ryan M. J. (2015) Cranial anatomy of Wendiceratops pinhornensis gen. et sp. nov., a centrosaurine ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian), Alberta, Canada, and the evolution of ceratopsid nasal ornamentation, PLoS ONE 10 7, e0130007 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0130007 |
| Ryan M. J., Holmes R., et al (2017) A basal ceratopsid (Centrosaurinae: Nasutoceratopsini) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 54, 1-14 doi:10.1139/cjes-2016-0110 |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Syst. Rept., 78 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
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