Species
Valid Extinct

Anchiceratops ornatus

Brown 1914

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
6
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Neornithischia Unranked clade
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Pyrodontia Unranked clade
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Cerapoda Unranked clade
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Marginocephalia Unranked clade
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Ceratopsia Suborder
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Ceratopsidae Family
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Chasmosaurinae Subfamily
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Anchiceratops Genus
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Anchiceratops ornatus Species
Fossil sites 6 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇦 Canada
6
Geological formations
Horseshoe Canyon
6
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
3
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
3
Synonyms (1)
Anchiceratops longirostris subjective synonym of Anchiceratops ornatus
Bibliography
Original description
B. Brown. 1914. Anchiceratops, a new genus of horned dinosaurs from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. With discussion of the origin of the ceratopsian crest and the brain casts of Anchiceratops and Trachodon. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33(33):539-548
Bibliography (4)
P. J. Currie and E. B. Koppelhus. 2014. Implications of finding a ceratopsian horncore in the Danek bonebed. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 51:1034-1038 DOI ↗
R. S. Lull. 1933. A revision of the Ceratopsia or horned dinosaurs. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 3(3):1-175 DOI ↗
C. M. Sternberg. 1929. A new species of horned dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta. National Museum of Canada Bulletin 54:34-37 DOI ↗
B. Brown. 1914. Anchiceratops, a new genus of horned dinosaurs from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. With discussion of the origin of the ceratopsian crest and the brain casts of Anchiceratops and Trachodon. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33(33):539-548