Reptilia - Ornithischia - Leptoceratopsidae
Full reference: B. Brown. 1914. Leptoceratops, a new genus of Ceratopsia from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33(36):567-580
Belongs to Leptoceratops according to P. Dodson and P. J. Currie 1990
See also Breithaupt 1985, Brown 1914, Brown and Schlaikjer 1942, Butler et al. 2008, Campione and Holmes 2006, Charig 1967, Chinnery 2004, Demathieu 1970, Dong and Currie 1994, Drake 1980, Eberth 1997, Eberth et al. 2001, Handa et al. 2012, Hay 1930, Huene 1927, Kuhn 1964, Lehman 1996, Lull 1933, Maidment and Barrett 2011, Makovicky 2001, Makovicky 2010, Maryanska and Osmólska 1975, McDonald and Horner 2010, Ostrom 1978, Ott 2007, Parks 1925, Rich 1996, Rich et al. 2014, Russell 1930, Russell 1933, Russell 1964, Russell 1966, Russell 1970, Russell 1984, Ryan and Evans 2005, Ryan et al. 2012, Sternberg 1950, Sternberg 1951, Tanoue and Okazaki 2014, Tanoue et al. 2009, Tatarinov 1964, Tereshchenko 2007, Tereshchenko and Alifanov 2003, Tereshchenko and Singer 2013, Wiman 1930 and You and Dodson 2004
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH 5205, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is 3 miles above Tolman Ferry (190 ft level) [AMNH], which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial claystone/sandstone in the Scollard Formation of Canada.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: Alberta collections), United States (3: Montana, Wyoming)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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