Family
Valid Extinct

Ceratosauridae

Marsh 1884

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
6
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Ceratosauridae
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Six ceratosaurians (top to bottom): Rugops, Elaphrosaurus, Majungasaurus, Carnotaurus, Ceratosaurus, Berthasaura © Ryan Somma User:Aktron User:Skye McDavid User:Packa User:Jens Lallensack User:Alexpritchardartist · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Ceratosauria Suborder
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Ceratosauridae Family
Fossil sites 6 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇹🇿 Tanzania
3
🇲🇦 Morocco
1
🇺🇾 Uruguay
1
🇺🇸 United States
1
Geological formations
Tendaguru
3
Tacuarembó
1
Morrison
1
Temporal distribution
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
4
Kimmeridgian (154.8–149.2 Ma)
1
Toarcian (184.2–174.7 Ma)
1
Synonyms (2)
Ceratosaurus roechlingi nomen dubium, species not entered Ceratosauridae
Labrosauridae subjective synonym of Ceratosauridae
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
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 ↗
Bibliography (5)
S. G. Dalman. 2014. New data on small theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Como Bluff, Wyoming, USA. Volumina Jurassica 12(2):181-196
E. Buffetaut. 2008. Spinosaurid teeth from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania, with remarks on the evolutionary and biogeographical history of the Spinosauridae. In: J.-M. Mazin, J. Pouech, P. Hantzpergue & V. Lacombe (eds.), Mid-Mesozoic Life and Environments, Cognac, France. Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de Lyon 164:26-28
M. Soto and D. Perea. 2008. A ceratosaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous of Uruguay. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(2):439-444 DOI ↗
R. Allain, R. S. Tykoski, and N. Aquesbi, N.-E. Jalil, M. Monbaron, D. A. Russell, P. Taquet. 2007. An abelisauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Jurassic of the High Atlas Mountains, Morocco, and the radiation of ceratosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):610-624 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