Genre
Valide Éteint

Ceratosaurus

Marsh 1884
Étymologie Reptile à cornes

Ceratosaurus est un genre de dinosaure théropode qui a vécu dans l'Utah, le Colorado, au Portugal et en Tanzanie pendant le Jurassique supérieur. Le nom signifie « lézard à corne » à cause de l'appendice qu'il porte sur le museau : il est le seul carnivore connu à présenter cette caractéristique. Cette saillie ressemble à une corne, bien qu'elle soit osseuse, arrondie et non tranchante. Ceratosaurus fut découvert en 1883.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
29
Groupe
Dinosaures
Carnivore Vivant au sol, solitaire Terrestre
Ceratosaurus
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Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
Theropoda Clade non classé
Neotheropoda Clade non classé
Averostra Clade non classé
Ceratosauria Sous-ordre
Ceratosaurus Genre
Sites de découverte 29 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇺🇸 États-Unis
19
🇵🇹 Portugal
5
🇹🇿 Tanzanie
3
🇺🇾 Uruguay
2
Formations géologiques
Tacuarembó
2
Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo
1
Distribution temporelle
Tithonien (149.2–143.1 Ma)
21
Kimméridgien (154.8–149.2 Ma)
7
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Espèces (4)
Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus subjective synonym of Ceratosaurus nasicornis 155 Ma
Ceratosaurus magnicornis subjective synonym of Ceratosaurus nasicornis 155 Ma
Ceratosaurus nasicornis 155 Ma
Ceratosaurus stechowi nomen dubium, species not entered Ceratosaurus 152 Ma
Synonymes (1)
Ceratosaurus stechowi nomen dubium, species not entered Ceratosaurus
Bibliographie
Description originale
O. C. Marsh. 1884. Principal characters of American Jurassic dinosaurs. Part VIII. The order Theropoda. The American Journal of Science, series 3 27:329-340 DOI ↗
Bibliographie (22)
G. C. Agyan. 2021. Taphonomy of Late Jurassic (Tithonian) Morrison Formation Apatosaurus sp. Vertebrae Found Associated with Teeth from Allosaurus sp. and Ceratosaurus sp., and Body Size Extrapolation from the Associated Theropod Teeth DOI ↗
D. R. Richmond, T. C. Hunt, and R. L. Cifelli. 2020. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Morrison Formation in the western panhandle of Oklahoma with reference to the historical Stovall dinosaur quarries. Journal of Geology 128:477-515 DOI ↗
M. Soto, P. Toriño, and D. Perea. 2020. Ceratosaurus (Theropoda, Ceratosauria) teeth from the Tacuarembó Formation (Late Jurassic, Uruguay). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 103:102781:1-16 DOI ↗
J. R. Foster, R. K. Hunt-Foster, and M. A. Gorman, KC Trujillo, C. A. Suarez, J. B. McHugh, J. E. Peterson, J. P. Warnock, H. E. Schoenstein. 2018. Paleontology, taphonomy, and sedimentology of the Mygatt-Moore Quarry, a large dinosaur bonebed in the Morrison Formation, western Colorado—implications for Upper Jurassic dinosaur preservation modes. Geology of the Intermountain West 5:23-93 DOI ↗
E. Malafaia, F. Ortega, and F. Escaso, B. Silva. 2015. New evidence of Ceratosaurus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Jurassic of the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal. Historical Biology 27(7):938-946 DOI ↗
D. L. Jeffery, J. L. Bertog, and J. R. Bishop. 2011. Sequence stratigraphy of dinosaur lake: small scale fluvio-deltaic stratal relationships of a dinosaur accumulation at the Aaron Scott Quarry, Morrison Formation, San Rafael Swell, Utah. Palaios 26(5):275-283 DOI ↗
O. W. M. Rauhut. 2011. Theropod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania). Special Papers in Palaeontology 86:195-239 DOI ↗
H. Galiano and R. Albersdörfer. 2010. A New Basal Diplodocoid Species, Amphicoelias brontodiplodocus from the Morrison Formation, Big Horn Basin, Wyoming, with Taxonomic Reevaluation of Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Barosaurus and Other Genera. Dinosauria International (Ten Sleep, WY) Report for September 2010
F. Ortega, E. Malafaia, and F. Escaso, A. Pérez García, P. Dantas. 2009. Faunas de répteis do Jurássico Superior de Portugal: sobre las faunas de reptiles del Jurásico Superior de Portugal [Reptile faunas from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal: on the reptile faunas from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal]. Paleolusitana 1:43-56
M. T. Carrano and S. D. Sampson. 2008. The phylogeny of Ceratosauria (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6(2):183-236 DOI ↗
J. I. Kirkland. 2006. Fruita Paleontological Area (Upper Jurassic, Morrison Formation), western Colorado: an example of terrestrial taphofacies analysis. Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 36:67-95
A. L. Koch, F. Frost, and K. Trujillo. 2006. Palaeontological discoveries at Curecanti National Recreation Area and Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, Colorado. Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 36:35-38
J. R. Foster. 2003. Paleoecological analysis of the vertebrate fauna of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Rocky Mountain region, U.S.A. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 23:1-95
M. V. Connely. 2002. Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Morrison Formation, Como Bluff, Wyoming
J. H. Madsen Jr. and S. P. Welles. 2000. Ceratosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda): a revised osteology. Utah Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Publications 00-2:1-80
O. W. M. Rauhut. 2000. The dinosaur fauna from the Guimarota mina. Guimarota—A Jurassic Ecosystem, Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München
C. A. Miles and D. W. Hamblin. 1999. Historical update: paleontological excavation in the Como Region. In J. H. Ostrom & J. S. McIntosh, Marsh's Dinosaurs. Yale University Press, New Haven
D. R. Richmond and K. L. Stadtman. 1996. Sedimentology of a Ceratosaurus site in the San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 41:117-124
W. E. Miller, J. L. Baer, and K. L. Stadtman, B. B. Britt. 1991. The Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry, Mesa County, Colorado. Guidebook for Dinosaur Quarries and Tracksites Tour, Western Colorado and Eastern Utah
J. W. Stovall. 1938. The Morrison of Oklahoma and its dinosaurs. Journal of Geology 46:583-600 DOI ↗
W. Janensch. 1925. Die Coelurosaurier und Theropoden der Tendaguru-Schichten Deutsch-Ostafrikas [The coelurosaurs and theropods of the Tendaguru Formation of German East Africa]. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII (1) 1(1):1-100
C. W. Gilmore. 1914. Osteology of the armored Dinosauria in the United States National Museum, with special reference to the genus Stegosaurus. United States National Museum Bulletin 89:1-136 DOI ↗