Species
Valid Extinct

Torosaurus latus

Marsh 1891

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
7
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Ornithischia Unranked clade
Neornithischia Unranked clade
Pyrodontia Unranked clade
Cerapoda Unranked clade
Marginocephalia Unranked clade
Ceratopsia Suborder
Ceratopsidae Family
Chasmosaurinae Subfamily
Triceratopsini Unranked clade
Torosaurus Genus
Torosaurus latus Species
Fossil sites 7 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
5
🇨🇦 Canada
2
Geological formations
Lance
2
Scollard
1
Laramie
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
7
Synonyms (1)
Torosaurus gladius objective synonym of Torosaurus latus
Bibliography
Original description
O. C. Marsh. 1891. Notice of new vertebrate fossils. The American Journal of Science, series 3 42:265-269 DOI ↗
Bibliography (5)
J. C. Mallon, R. B. Holmes, and E. L. Bamforth, D. Schumann. 2022. The record of Torosaurus (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) in Canada and its taxonomic implications. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195(1):157-171 DOI ↗
K. Carpenter and D. B. Young. 2002. Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Denver Basin, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Geology 37(2):237-254 DOI ↗
D. A. Pearson, T. Schaefer, and K. R. Johnson, D. J. Nichols, J. P. Hunter. 2002. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Hell Creek Formation in southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota. The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains: An Integrated Continental Record of the End of the Cretaceous, Geological Society of America Special Paper 361:145-167 DOI ↗
E. H. Colbert and J. D. Bump. 1947. A skull of Torosaurus from South Dakota and a revision of the genus. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 99:93-106
O. C. Marsh. 1891. Notice of new vertebrate fossils. The American Journal of Science, series 3 42:265-269 DOI ↗