Genre
Valide Éteint

Torosaurus

Marsh 1891
Étymologie Reptile taureau

Torosaurus est un genre fossile de dinosaures herbivores cératopsiens ayant vécu à la fin du Crétacé supérieur (Maastrichtien) en Amérique du Nord, il y a entre 68 et 66 millions d'années.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
12
Groupe
Dinosaures
Herbivore Vivant au sol Terrestre
Torosaurus
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Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
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Ornithischia Clade non classé
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Neornithischia Clade non classé
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Pyrodontia Clade non classé
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Cerapoda Clade non classé
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Marginocephalia Clade non classé
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Ceratopsia Sous-ordre
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Ceratopsidae Famille
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Chasmosaurinae Sous-famille
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Triceratopsini Clade non classé
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Torosaurus Genre
Sites de découverte 12 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇺🇸 États-Unis
10
🇨🇦 Canada
2
Formations géologiques
Hell Creek
3
Javelina
2
Lance
2
Kirtland
1
Scollard
1
Laramie
1
Frenchman
1
North Horn
1
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien (72.2–66 Ma)
11
Campanien (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Espèces (3)
Torosaurus gladius objective synonym of Torosaurus latus 72 Ma
Torosaurus latus 72 Ma
Torosaurus utahensis 72 Ma
Images 2
Bibliographie
Description originale
O. C. Marsh. 1891. Notice of new vertebrate fossils. The American Journal of Science, series 3 42:265-269 DOI ↗
Bibliographie (9)
J. C. Mallon, R. B. Holmes, and E. L. Bamforth, D. Schumann. 2022. The record of Torosaurus (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) in Canada and its taxonomic implications. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195(1):157-171 DOI ↗
W. W. Stein. 2021. The paleontology, geology and taphonomy of the Tooth Draw Deposit; Hell Creek Formation (Maastrictian), Butte County, South Dakota. The Journal of Paleontological Sciences JPS.C.21:0001:1-108
R. K. Hunt and T. M. Lehman. 2008. Attributes of the ceratopsian dinosaur Torosaurus, and new material from the Javelina Formation (Maastrichtian) of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 82(6):1127-1138 DOI ↗
K. Carpenter and D. B. Young. 2002. Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Denver Basin, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Geology 37(2):237-254 DOI ↗
A. A. Farke. 2002. A review of Torosaurus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae) specimens from Texas and New Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3 (suppl.)):52A
D. A. Pearson, T. Schaefer, and K. R. Johnson, D. J. Nichols, J. P. Hunter. 2002. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Hell Creek Formation in southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota. The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains: An Integrated Continental Record of the End of the Cretaceous, Geological Society of America Special Paper 361:145-167 DOI ↗
E. H. Colbert and J. D. Bump. 1947. A skull of Torosaurus from South Dakota and a revision of the genus. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 99:93-106
C. W. Gilmore. 1946. Reptilian fauna of the North Horn Formation of central Utah. United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey Professional Paper 210-C:29-53 DOI ↗
O. C. Marsh. 1891. Notice of new vertebrate fossils. The American Journal of Science, series 3 42:265-269 DOI ↗