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Ceratosaurus
Taxonomy
Ceratosaurus was named by Marsh (1884).
It was synonymized subjectively with Megalosaurus by Lydekker (1893).
It was assigned to Megalosauridae by Nopcsa (1901); to Theropoda by Dollo (1885), Gadow (1898) and Gadow (1901); to Coeluridae by von Zittel (1911); to Pachypodosauria by Huene (1914); to Theropoda by Gadow (1897) and Joleaud (1922); to Megalosaurinae by Nopcsa (1928); to Coelurosauria by Huene (1923), Kuhn (1939) and Walker (1964); to Coelurosauria by Reig (1970); to Megalosauridae by Matthew and Brown (1922), Romer (1956) and Madsen and Miller (1979); to Ceratosauria by Benton (1990); to Megalosaurinidae by Baur (1891), Williston (1905), Janensch (1920), Piveteau (1923), Lull (1924), Romer (1966), Colbert and Russell (1969), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970), Galton (1977), Dong et al. (1978), McIntosh (1981) and Miller et al. (1991); to Theropoda by Currie (1995); to Ceratosauroidea by Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sampson et al. (1998) and Sereno (1999); to Neoceratosauria by Novas (1991), Novas (1992), Holtz (1994), Pérez-Moreno et al. (1994), Holtz (1995), Rowe et al. (1997), Holtz (1998), Holtz (2000), Lamanna et al. (2002), Carrano et al. (2002), Tykoski and Rowe (2004) and Tortosa et al. (2014); to Ceratosauria by Gauthier (1986), Rowe (1989), Rowe and Gauthier (1990), Currie (1997), Rauhut (2003), Sereno et al. (2004), Yates (2005), Smith (2007), Carrano and Sampson (2008), Ezcurra et al. (2010), Ruiz et al. (2011), Carrano et al. (2012) and Gianechini et al. (2015); and to Ceratosauridae by Vetter (1884), Dollo (1884), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1885), Cope (1885), Zittel (1890), Winkler (1893), Marsh (1895), Depéret (1896), Marsh (1896), Mansel-Pleydell (1902), Hay (1902), Huene (1909), Gilmore (1920), Huene (1926), Hay (1930), Stromer (1934), Tatarinov (1964), Osmolska (1981), Russell (1984), Welles (1984), Paul (1988), Carroll (1988), Bonaparte et al. (1990), Bonaparte (1991), Bakker et al. (1992), Knoll et al. (1999), Chure et al. (2006), Mateus et al. (2006), Soto and Perea (2008), Hendrickx and Mateus (2014) and Delcourt (2018).
It was synonymized subjectively with Megalosaurus by Lydekker (1893).
It was assigned to Megalosauridae by Nopcsa (1901); to Theropoda by Dollo (1885), Gadow (1898) and Gadow (1901); to Coeluridae by von Zittel (1911); to Pachypodosauria by Huene (1914); to Theropoda by Gadow (1897) and Joleaud (1922); to Megalosaurinae by Nopcsa (1928); to Coelurosauria by Huene (1923), Kuhn (1939) and Walker (1964); to Coelurosauria by Reig (1970); to Megalosauridae by Matthew and Brown (1922), Romer (1956) and Madsen and Miller (1979); to Ceratosauria by Benton (1990); to Megalosaurinidae by Baur (1891), Williston (1905), Janensch (1920), Piveteau (1923), Lull (1924), Romer (1966), Colbert and Russell (1969), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970), Galton (1977), Dong et al. (1978), McIntosh (1981) and Miller et al. (1991); to Theropoda by Currie (1995); to Ceratosauroidea by Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sampson et al. (1998) and Sereno (1999); to Neoceratosauria by Novas (1991), Novas (1992), Holtz (1994), Pérez-Moreno et al. (1994), Holtz (1995), Rowe et al. (1997), Holtz (1998), Holtz (2000), Lamanna et al. (2002), Carrano et al. (2002), Tykoski and Rowe (2004) and Tortosa et al. (2014); to Ceratosauria by Gauthier (1986), Rowe (1989), Rowe and Gauthier (1990), Currie (1997), Rauhut (2003), Sereno et al. (2004), Yates (2005), Smith (2007), Carrano and Sampson (2008), Ezcurra et al. (2010), Ruiz et al. (2011), Carrano et al. (2012) and Gianechini et al. (2015); and to Ceratosauridae by Vetter (1884), Dollo (1884), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1885), Cope (1885), Zittel (1890), Winkler (1893), Marsh (1895), Depéret (1896), Marsh (1896), Mansel-Pleydell (1902), Hay (1902), Huene (1909), Gilmore (1920), Huene (1926), Hay (1930), Stromer (1934), Tatarinov (1964), Osmolska (1981), Russell (1984), Welles (1984), Paul (1988), Carroll (1988), Bonaparte et al. (1990), Bonaparte (1991), Bakker et al. (1992), Knoll et al. (1999), Chure et al. (2006), Mateus et al. (2006), Soto and Perea (2008), Hendrickx and Mateus (2014) and Delcourt (2018).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1884 | Ceratosaurus Dollo p. 298 |
| 1884 | Ceratosaurus Marsh p. 69 |
| 1884 | Ceratosaurus Vetter p. 363 |
| 1885 | Ceratosaurus Cope p. 68 |
| 1885 | Ceratosaurus Dollo p. 41 |
| 1885 | Ceratosaurus Marsh p. 765 |
| 1890 | Ceratosaurus Zittel p. 727 |
| 1891 | Ceratosaurus Baur p. 450 |
| 1893 | Ceratosaurus Winkler p. 108 |
| 1895 | Ceratosaurus Marsh |
| 1896 | Ceratosaurus Depéret pp. 184-185 |
| 1896 | Ceratosaurus Marsh p. 240 |
| 1897 | Ceratosaurus Gadow p. 204 |
| 1898 | Ceratosaurus Gadow p. 22 |
| 1901 | Ceratosaurus Gadow p. 422 |
| 1901 | Ceratosaurus Nopcsa p. 199 |
| 1902 | Ceratosaurus Hay p. 493 |
| 1902 | Ceratosaurus Mansel-Pleydell p. lxxviii |
| 1905 | Ceratosaurus Williston p. 345 |
| 1909 | Ceratosaurus Huene p. 15 |
| 1911 | Ceratosaurus von Zittel p. 281 |
| 1914 | Ceratosaurus Huene p. 157 |
| 1920 | Ceratosaurus Gilmore p. 76 |
| 1920 | Labrosaurus stechowi Janensch figs. 7-8 |
| 1920 | Ceratosaurus Janensch p. 230 |
| 1920 | Labrosaurus stechowi Janensch pp. 232-233 figs. 7-8 |
| 1922 | Ceratosaurus Joleaud p. 60 |
| 1922 | Ceratosaurus Matthew and Brown p. 369 |
| 1923 | Ceratosaurus Huene p. 457 |
| 1923 | Ceratosaurus Piveteau p. 6 |
| 1924 | Ceratosaurus Lull p. 229 |
| 1925 | Labrosaurus stechowi Janensch pp. 86-90 |
| 1926 | Ceratosaurus Huene p. 96 |
| 1928 | Ceratosaurus Nopcsa p. 183 |
| 1930 | Ceratosaurus Hay p. 175 |
| 1934 | Ceratosaurus Stromer p. 80 |
| 1939 | Ceratosaurus Kuhn p. 41 |
| 1939 | Labrosaurus stechowi Kuhn p. 43 |
| 1956 | Ceratosaurus Romer p. 615 |
| 1964 | Ceratosaurus Tatarinov p. 538 |
| 1964 | Ceratosaurus Walker p. 114 |
| 1966 | Ceratosaurus Romer p. 369 |
| 1969 | Ceratosaurus Colbert and Russell pp. 36-37 |
| 1970 | Ceratosaurus Reig p. 278 |
| 1970 | Ceratosaurus Steel p. 30 |
| 1970 | Ceratosaurus Swinton p. 145 |
| 1977 | Ceratosaurus Galton p. 230 |
| 1978 | Ceratosaurus Dong et al. |
| 1979 | Ceratosaurus Madsen and Miller p. 5 |
| 1981 | Ceratosaurus McIntosh p. 8 |
| 1981 | Ceratosaurus Osmolska p. 80 |
| 1984 | Ceratosaurus Russell p. 22 |
| 1984 | Ceratosaurus Welles p. 177 |
| 1986 | Antrodemus stechowi Chabli p. 70 |
| 1986 | Ceratosaurus Gauthier p. 9 |
| 1988 | Ceratosaurus Carroll |
| 1988 | Ceratosaurus Paul pp. 275-276 |
| 1989 | Ceratosaurus Rowe |
| 1990 | Ceratosaurus Benton p. 19 |
| 1990 | Ceratosaurus Bonaparte et al. pp. 35-36 |
| 1990 | Ceratosaurus Rowe and Gauthier p. 152 |
| 1991 | Ceratosaurus Bonaparte p. 22 |
| 1991 | Ceratosaurus Miller et al. p. 40 |
| 1991 | Ceratosaurus Novas p. 401 |
| 1992 | Ceratosaurus Bakker et al. p. 10 |
| 1992 | Ceratosaurus Novas p. 142 |
| 1994 | Ceratosaurus Holtz |
| 1994 | Ceratosaurus Pérez-Moreno et al. p. 184 fig. 1 |
| 1995 | Ceratosaurus Currie p. 25A |
| 1995 | Ceratosaurus Holtz, Jr. p. 35A |
| 1997 | Ceratosaurus Currie p. 732 |
| 1997 | Ceratosaurus Rowe et al. p. 108 |
| 1997 | Ceratosaurus Sereno p. 455 |
| 1998 | Ceratosaurus Holtz, Jr. p. 39 |
| 1998 | Ceratosaurus Sampson et al. p. 1051 |
| 1998 | Ceratosaurus Sereno p. 73 fig. 8 |
| 1999 | Ceratosaurus Knoll et al. p. 107 |
| 1999 | Ceratosaurus Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2 |
| 2000 | Ceratosaurus Holtz, Jr. p. 16 fig. 5 |
| 2002 | Ceratosaurus Carrano et al. |
| 2002 | Ceratosaurus Lamanna et al. p. 63 |
| 2003 | Ceratosaurus Rauhut p. 141 |
| 2004 | Ceratosaurus Sereno et al. p. 1329 fig. 4 |
| 2004 | Ceratosaurus Tykoski and Rowe p. 48 |
| 2005 | Ceratosaurus Yates p. 118 fig. 9 |
| 2006 | Ceratosaurus Chure et al. p. 236 |
| 2006 | Labrosaurus stechowi Mateus p. 231 |
| 2006 | Ceratosaurus Mateus et al. p. 123 |
| 2007 | Ceratosaurus Smith p. 104 |
| 2008 | Ceratosaurus Carrano and Sampson pp. 199-200 fig. 4 |
| 2008 | Ceratosaurus Soto and Perea p. 439 |
| 2010 | Ceratosaurus Ezcurra et al. p. 14 fig. 8 |
| 2011 | Ceratosaurus Ruiz et al. p. 1271 |
| 2012 | Ceratosaurus Carrano et al. p. 248 fig. 7 |
| 2014 | Ceratosaurus Hendrickx and Mateus |
| 2014 | Ceratosaurus Tortosa et al. p. 70 |
| 2015 | Ceratosaurus Gianechini et al. |
| 2018 | Ceratosaurus Delcourt p. 3 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Ceratosaurus Marsh 1884
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†Ceratosaurus nasicornis Marsh 1884
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Invalid names: Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus Madsen Jr. and Welles 2000 [synonym], Ceratosaurus magnicornis Madsen Jr. and Welles 2000 [synonym]
Invalid names: Ceratosaurus stechowi Janensch 1920 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available