Species
Valid Extinct

Ceratosaurus nasicornis

(Marsh 1884)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
6
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Theropoda Unranked clade
Neotheropoda Unranked clade
Averostra Unranked clade
Ceratosauria Suborder
Ceratosaurus Genus
Ceratosaurus nasicornis Species
Fossil sites 6 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
5
🇵🇹 Portugal
1
Geological formations
Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo
1
Temporal distribution
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
4
Kimmeridgian (154.8–149.2 Ma)
2
Synonyms (2)
Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus subjective synonym of Ceratosaurus nasicornis
Ceratosaurus magnicornis subjective synonym of Ceratosaurus nasicornis
Bibliography
Original description
O. C. Marsh. 1884. Principal characters of American Jurassic dinosaurs. Part VIII. The order Theropoda. The American Journal of Science, series 3 27:329-340 DOI ↗
Bibliography (5)
J. R. Foster, R. K. Hunt-Foster, and M. A. Gorman, KC Trujillo, C. A. Suarez, J. B. McHugh, J. E. Peterson, J. P. Warnock, H. E. Schoenstein. 2018. Paleontology, taphonomy, and sedimentology of the Mygatt-Moore Quarry, a large dinosaur bonebed in the Morrison Formation, western Colorado—implications for Upper Jurassic dinosaur preservation modes. Geology of the Intermountain West 5:23-93 DOI ↗
E. Malafaia, F. Ortega, and F. Escaso, B. Silva. 2015. New evidence of Ceratosaurus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Jurassic of the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal. Historical Biology 27(7):938-946 DOI ↗
J. H. Madsen Jr. and S. P. Welles. 2000. Ceratosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda): a revised osteology. Utah Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Publications 00-2:1-80
D. R. Richmond and K. L. Stadtman. 1996. Sedimentology of a Ceratosaurus site in the San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 41:117-124
C. W. Gilmore. 1914. Osteology of the armored Dinosauria in the United States National Museum, with special reference to the genus Stegosaurus. United States National Museum Bulletin 89:1-136 DOI ↗