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Timeline of ceratosaur research

Index 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. [1]

56 relations: Abelisaur, Abelisauridae, Abelisaurus, Arcovenator, Aucasaurus, Austrocheirus, Bayosaurus, Berberosaurus, Betasuchus, Camarillasaurus, Carnotaurinae, Carnotaurus, Ceratosauria, Ceratosauridae, Chenanisaurus, Coeluroides, Compsosuchus, Dandakosaurus, Dryptosauroides, Ekrixinatosaurus, Elaphrosaurus, Eoabelisaurus, Fosterovenator, Furileusauria, Genusaurus, Genyodectes, Ilokelesia, Indosaurus, Indosuchus, Jubbulpuria, Kryptops, Laevisuchus, Ligabueino, Limusaurus, Majungasaurinae, Majungasaurus, Masiakasaurus, Noasauridae, Noasaurus, Ornithomimoides, Orthogoniosaurus, Ozraptor, Pycnonemosaurus, Quilmesaurus, Rahiolisaurus, Rajasaurus, Rugops, Skorpiovenator, Spinostropheus, Tarascosaurus, ..., Timeline of coelophysoid research, Velocisaurus, Viavenator, Vitakridrinda, Xenotarsosaurus, Zanclodon cambrensis. Expand index (6 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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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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Austrocheirus

Austrocheirus is an extinct genus of theropod dinosaur, possibly a neoceratosaurian, which existed during the Late Cretaceous period.

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Bayosaurus

"Bayosaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur.

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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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Betasuchus

Betasuchus is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous Period.

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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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Chenanisaurus

Chenanisaurus barbaricus is a species of predatory abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the upper Maastrichtian phosphates of the Ouled Abdoun Basin in Morocco, North Africa.

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Coeluroides

Coeluroides ("hollow form") is a small, little-known theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now India.

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Compsosuchus

Compsosuchus (meaning "pretty crocodile") is an extinct genus of abelisaurian dinosaur.

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Dandakosaurus

Dandakosaurus (meaning "Dandakaranya lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from Andhra Pradesh, India.

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Dryptosauroides

Dryptosauroides (meaning "similar in form to Dryptosaurus") is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous.

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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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Fosterovenator

Fosterovenator (meaning "Foster's hunter") is a genus of ceratosaurid ceratosaur dinosaur known from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming.

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Furileusauria

Furileusauria is an extinct clade of abelisaurid dinosaurs only known from South American fossil remains.

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Genusaurus

Genusaurus (meaning "knee lizard") is a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous.

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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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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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Jubbulpuria

Jubbulpuria ("Jubbulpore one") is the name given to a dubious genus of small dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of India.

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Kryptops

Kryptops (meaning "covered face", in reference to evidence that the face bore a tightly-adhering covering) is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Niger.

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Laevisuchus

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

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Ligabueino

Ligabueino (meaning "Ligabue's little one") is a genus of abelisauroid dinosaur named after its discoverer, Italian doctor Giancarlo Ligabue.

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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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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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Ornithomimoides

Ornithomimoides ("bird mimic-like") is a dubious genus of small theropod dinosaur, from the Late Cretaceous period (Maastrichtian stage, sometime between 70–66 mya) of India.

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Orthogoniosaurus

Orthogoniosaurus (meaning "straight angled lizard", referring to the straight posterior edge of its type tooth) was a genus of theropod dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Lameta Formation of Jabalpur, India.

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Ozraptor

Ozraptor ("Australian thief") is an valid abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) Colalura Sandstone of Australia.

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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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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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Skorpiovenator

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

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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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Tarascosaurus

Tarascosaurus ("Tarasque lizard") is a genus of abelisaurid, theropod dinosaur from Late Cretaceous of France.

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Timeline of coelophysoid research

This timeline of coelophysoid research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the coelophysoids, a group of primitive theropod dinosaurs that were among Earth's dominant predators during the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic epochs.

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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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Viavenator

Viavenator is a genus of carnivorous abelisaurid theropod dinosaur discovered in Argentina's Bajo de la Carpa Formation.

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Vitakridrinda

Vitakridrinda is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Balochistan, western Pakistan.

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Xenotarsosaurus

Xenotarsosaurus is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous of Argentina.

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Zanclodon cambrensis

Zanclodon cambrensis is a species of theropod dinosaur formerly assigned to the genus Zanclodon, but since reassigned to either Megalosaurus or the informal taxon "Newtonsaurus".

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References

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

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