Family
Valid Extinct

Proceratosauridae

Rauhut et al. 2010

Proceratosauridae is a family or clade of tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
6
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Proceratosauridae
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Proceratosaurus bradleyi holotype NHMUK PV R 4860. Almost complete skull and mandibles in articulation, hyoid element and anterior cervical vertebrae in oolite block. © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 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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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Coelurosauria Unranked clade
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Tyrannosauroidea Superfamily
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Proceratosauridae Family
Fossil sites 6 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
3
🇷🇺 Russia
2
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1
Geological formations
Itat
2
White Limestone
1
Shishugou
1
Yixian
1
Jiufotang
1
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Bathonian (168.2–165.3 Ma)
3
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
O. W. M. Rauhut, A. C. Milner, and S. Moore-Fay. 2010. Cranial osteology and phylogenetic position of the theropod dinosaur Proceratosaurus bradleyi (Woodward, 1910) from the Middle Jurassic of England. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158(1):155-195 DOI ↗
Bibliography (6)
A. Averianov, T. Martin, and P. Skutschas, I. Danilov, J. Schultz, R. Schellhorn, E. Obraztsova, A. Lopatin, E. Sttchevskaya, I. Kuzmin, S. Krasnotutskii, S. Ivantsov. 2016. Middle Jurassic vertebrate assemblage of Berezovsk coal mine in western Siberia (Russia). Global Geology 19(4):187-204 DOI ↗
X. Xu, K. Wang, and K. Zhang, Q. Ma, L. Xing, C. Sullivan, D. Hu, S. Cheng, S. Wang. 2012. A gigantic feathered dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China. Nature 484:92-95 DOI ↗
A. O. Averianov, S. A. Krasnolutskii, and S. V. Ivantsov. 2010. A new basal coelurosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Middle Jurassic of Siberia. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Science 314(1):42-57 DOI ↗
Q. Ji, S.-a. Ji, and L.-j. Zhang. 2009. First large tyrannosauroid theropod from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota in northeastern China. Geological Bulletin of China 28(10):1369-1374
X. Xu, J. M. Clark, and C. A. Forster, M. A. Norell, G. M. Erickson, D. A. Eberth, C. Jai, Q. Zhao. 2006. A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China. Nature 439:715-718 DOI ↗
A. S. Woodward. 1910. On a skull of Megalosaurus from the Great Oolite of Minchinhampton (Gloucestershire). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 66(262):111-115 DOI ↗