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Ceratosauria

Index Ceratosauria

Ceratosaurs are members of a group of theropod dinosaurs defined as all theropods sharing a more recent common ancestry with Ceratosaurus than with birds. [1]

65 relations: Abelisaur, Abelisauridae, Abelisaurus, Alan J. Charig, Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent, Alfred Romer, Allosaurus, American Journal of Science, Archaeopteryx, Arcovenator, Aucasaurus, Berberosaurus, Camarillasaurus, Carnotaurinae, Carnotaurus, Ceratosauria, Ceratosauridae, Ceratosaurus, Clade, Cladogram, Coelophysoidea, Coelurosauria, Cretaceous, Dahalokely, Deltadromeus, Dilophosauridae, Dilophosaurus, Dinosaur, Edward Drinker Cope, Edwin H. Colbert, Ekrixinatosaurus, Elaphrosaurus, Eoabelisaurus, Genyodectes, Gondwana, Ilokelesia, Indosaurus, Indosuchus, Jacques Gauthier, Laevisuchus, Laurasia, Limusaurus, Maastrichtian, Majungasaurinae, Majungasaurus, Masiakasaurus, Noasauridae, Noasaurus, Othniel Charles Marsh, Pliensbachian, ..., Polytomy, Pycnonemosaurus, Quilmesaurus, Rahiolisaurus, Rajasaurus, René Lavocat, Rugops, Sinosaurus, Skorpiovenator, Southern Hemisphere, Spinostropheus, Tetanurae, Theropoda, Timeline of ceratosaur research, Velocisaurus. Expand index (15 more) »

Abelisaur

Abelisaurs (Abelisauria or Abelisauroidea) were a phylogenetic group within Neotheropoda.

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Abelisauridae

Abelisauridae (meaning "Abel's lizards") is a family (or clade) of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaurs.

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Abelisaurus

Abelisaurus ("Abel's lizard") is a genus of predatory abelisaurid theropod dinosaur during the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian) of what is now South America.

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Alan J. Charig

Alan Jack Charig (1 July 1927 – 15 July 1997) was an English palaeontologist and writer who popularised his subject on television and in books at the start of the wave of interest in dinosaurs in the 1970s.

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Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent

Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent (30 December 18395 May 1908) was a French geologist.

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Alfred Romer

Alfred Sherwood Romer (December 28, 1894 – November 5, 1973) was an American paleontologist and biologist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution.

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Allosaurus

Allosaurus is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 150 million years ago during the late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to early TithonianTurner, C.E. and Peterson, F., (1999). "Biostratigraphy of dinosaurs in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Western Interior, U.S.A." Pp. 77–114 in Gillette, D.D. (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah. Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1.). The name "Allosaurus" means "different lizard" alluding to its unique concave vertebrae (at the time of its discovery).

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American Journal of Science

The American Journal of Science (AJS) is the United States of America's longest-running scientific journal, having been published continuously since its conception in 1818 by Professor Benjamin Silliman, who edited and financed it himself.

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Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx, meaning "old wing" (sometimes referred to by its German name Urvogel ("original bird" or "first bird")), is a genus of bird-like dinosaurs that is transitional between non-avian feathered dinosaurs and modern birds.

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Arcovenator

Arcovenator ("Arc hunter") is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur hailing from the Late Cretaceous of France.

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Aucasaurus

Aucasaurus was a genus of medium-sized theropod dinosaur from Argentina that lived during the Santonian - Campanian stage of the Anacleto Formation.

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Berberosaurus

Berberosaurus (meaning "Berber lizard", in reference to the Berbers of Morocco) is a genus of neotheropod dinosaur, possibly a ceratosaur, from the Pliensbachian-Toarcian-age Lower Jurassic Toundoute Continental Series found in the High Atlas of Toundoute, Ouarzazate, Morocco.

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Camarillasaurus

Camarillasaurus is a genus of basal ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of Camarillas, Teruel Province, in what is now northeastern Spain.

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Carnotaurinae

Carnotaurinae is a subfamily of the theropod dinosaur family Abelisauridae.

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Carnotaurus

Carnotaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous period, from about 72 to 69.9 million years ago.

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Ceratosauria

Ceratosaurs are members of a group of theropod dinosaurs defined as all theropods sharing a more recent common ancestry with Ceratosaurus than with birds.

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Ceratosauridae

Ceratosauridae is a family of theropod dinosaurs belonging to the infraorder Ceratosauria.

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Ceratosaurus

Ceratosaurus (from Greek κέρας/κέρατος, keras/keratos meaning "horn" and σαῦρος/sauros meaning "lizard") was a predatory theropod dinosaur in the Late Jurassic Period (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian).

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Clade

A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".

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Cladogram

A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.

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Coelophysoidea

Coelophysoids were common dinosaurs of the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic periods.

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Coelurosauria

Coelurosauria (from Greek, meaning "hollow tailed lizards") is the clade containing all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to carnosaurs. Coelurosauria is a subgroup of theropod dinosaurs that includes compsognathids, tyrannosaurs, ornithomimosaurs, and maniraptorans; Maniraptora includes birds, the only dinosaur group alive today. Most feathered dinosaurs discovered so far have been coelurosaurs. Philip J. Currie considers it probable that all coelurosaurs were feathered. In the past, Coelurosauria was used to refer to all small theropods, this classification has since been abolished.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Dahalokely

Dahalokely is an extinct genus of carnivorous abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of Madagascar.

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Deltadromeus

Deltadromeus (meaning "delta runner") is a genus of large theropod dinosaur from Northern Africa.

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Dilophosauridae

Dilophosauridae is a family of medium to large sized theropod dinosaursHendrickx, C., Hartman, S.A., & Mateus, O. (2015).

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Dilophosaurus

Dilophosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now North America during the Early Jurassic, about 193million years ago.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist.

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Edwin H. Colbert

Edwin Harris "Ned" Colbert (September 28, 1905 – November 15, 2001)O'Connor, Anahad,, The New York Times, November 25, 2001.

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Ekrixinatosaurus

Ekrixinatosaurus ('explosion-born reptile') is a genus of abelisaurid theropod which lived approximately 100 to 97 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period.

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Elaphrosaurus

Elaphrosaurus is a genus of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 154 to 150 million years ago during the later part of the Jurassic Period in what is now Tanzania in Africa.

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Eoabelisaurus

Eoabelisaurus is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period of what is now South America.

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Genyodectes

Genyodectes ("jaw bite", from the Greek words genys ("jaw") and dektes ("bite")) is a genus of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) of South America.

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Gondwana

Gondwana, or Gondwanaland, was a supercontinent that existed from the Neoproterozoic (about 550 million years ago) until the Carboniferous (about 320 million years ago).

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Ilokelesia

Ilokelesia is an abelisaur found in 1991, preserved in the layers of the earliest Late Cretaceous of the Río Limay Formation, Neuquén Group, located near Plaza Huincul, Neuquén Province, Argentina.

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Indosaurus

Indosaurus (meaning "Indian lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur once living in what is now India.

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Indosuchus

Indosuchus is a genus of abelisaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period (70 to 66 million years ago – the Maastrichtian), a theropod related to Abelisaurus.

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Jacques Gauthier

Jacques Armand Gauthier (born June 7, 1948 in New York City) is an American vertebrate paleontologist, comparative morphologist, and systematist, and one of the founders of the use of cladistics in biology.

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Laevisuchus

Laevisuchus ("light crocodile") is a genus of abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous.

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Laurasia

Laurasia was the more northern of two supercontinents (the other being Gondwana) that formed part of the Pangaea supercontinent around (Mya).

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Limusaurus

Limusaurus (meaning "mud lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Jurassic (Oxfordian stage) Upper Shishugou Formation in the Junggar Basin of western China.

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Maastrichtian

The Maastrichtian is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous epoch or Upper Cretaceous series, the Cretaceous period or system, and of the Mesozoic era or erathem.

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Majungasaurinae

Majungasaurinae (named after the city of Mahajanga in Madagascar) is a subfamily of large carnivorous theropods from the Upper Cretaceous, found in Madagascar, India, and France.

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Majungasaurus

Majungasaurus ("Mahajanga lizard") is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in Madagascar from 70 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period.

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Masiakasaurus

Masiakasaurus is a genus of small predatory theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar.

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Noasauridae

Noasauridae was a group of diverse theropod dinosaurs from the group Ceratosauria.

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Noasaurus

Noasaurus ("Northwestern Argentina lizard") is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur genus of the late Campanian-Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous).

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Othniel Charles Marsh

Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 – March 18, 1899) was an American paleontologist.

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Pliensbachian

The Pliensbachian is an age of the geologic timescale or stage in the stratigraphic column.

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Polytomy

In biology, a polytomy is a section of a phylogeny in which the relationships cannot be fully resolved to dichotomies, thus presenting an unlikely picture of many apparently simultaneous temporally based branches.

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Pycnonemosaurus

Pycnonemosaurus (meaning 'thick forest lizard') is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur that belonged to the family Abelisauridae.

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Quilmesaurus

Quilmesaurus is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Patagonian Upper Cretaceous (Campanian stage) of Argentina.

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Rahiolisaurus

Rahiolisaurus is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur which existed in India during the Late Cretaceous period.

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Rajasaurus

Rajasaurus ('Raja' meaning "king" (derived from Sanskrit) here,"king of lizards") is a genus of carnivorous abelisaurian theropod dinosaur with an unusual head crest.

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René Lavocat

René Lavocat was a French paleontologist who described several genera of African dinosaurs including the sauropod Rebbachisaurus, as well as several extinct mammals such as the family Kenyamyidae.

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Rugops

Rugops (meaning "first wrinkle face") is a genus of theropod dinosaur which inhabited what is now Africa approximately 95 million years ago (Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous).

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Sinosaurus

Sinosaurus (meaning "Chinese lizard") was a tetanuran theropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic Period.

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Skorpiovenator

Skorpiovenator ("scorpion hunter") is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of Argentina.

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Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is south of the Equator.

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Spinostropheus

Spinostropheus is a genus of small carnivorous ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in the Middle Jurassic period of Niger.

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Tetanurae

Tetanurae (/ˌtɛtəˈnjuːriː/ or "stiff tails") is a clade that includes most theropod dinosaurs, including tyrannosaurids, megalosaurids, ornithomimids, allosaurids, maniraptora, and Aves.

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Theropoda

Theropoda (or, from Greek θηρίον "wild beast" and πούς, ποδός "foot") or theropods are a dinosaur suborder characterized by hollow bones and three-toed limbs.

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Timeline of ceratosaur research

This timeline of ceratosaur research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the ceratosaurs, a group of relatively primitive, often horned, predatory theropod dinosaurs that became the apex predators of the southern hemisphere during the Late Cretaceous.

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Velocisaurus

Velocisaurus ("swift lizard") is a genus of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous period of Argentina.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratosauria

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