Centrosaurus Lambe 1905 (ceratopsid)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae

Full reference: L. M. Lambe. 1905. On the squamoso-parietal crest of the horned dinosaurs Centrosaurus apertus and Monoclonius canadensis from the Cretaceous of Alberta. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series 2 10(4):1-9

Parent taxon: Centrosaurini according to M. J. Ryan et al. 2017

See also Abel 1924, Carroll 1988, Chure and McIntosh 1989, Clemens 1986, Dodson 1983, Dodson 1990, Dodson 1997, Dodson and Currie 1990, Dodson et al. 2004, Eberth et al. 2001, Evans and Ryan 2015, Farke 2004, Farke et al. 2011, Fiorillo and Tykoski 2012, Gregory and Mook 1925, Hay 1930, Holmes and Ryan 2013, Huene 1909, Huene 1927, Kuhn 1964, Lambe 1905, Lambe 1915, Lehman 1981, Lehman 1990, Lehman 1996, Longrich 2008, Longrich 2010, Lull 1906, Lull 1924, Lull 1933, Maidment and Barrett 2011, Makovicky 2001, McDonald 2011, McDonald and Horner 2010, McIntosh 1981, Molnar 1980, Olshevsky and Ford 1994, Parks 1935, Parsch 1963, Romer 1956, Romer 1966, Russell 1930, Russell 1984, Ryan 2007, Ryan and Evans 2005, Ryan et al. 2012, Ryan and Russell 2003, Ryan and Russell 2005, Ryan et al. 2010, Sampson 1994, Sternberg 1940, Sternberg 1949, Tatarinov 1964, Vickaryous and Ryan 1997, von Zittel 1911, Xu et al. 2010 and You and Dodson 2003

Sister taxa: Coronosaurus, Rubeosaurus, Spinops, Styracosaurus

Subtaxa: Centrosaurus apertus

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (45: Alberta collections), United States (3: Colorado, Montana)

Total: 48 collections each including a single occurrence

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