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Cerasinops hodgskissi

Osteichthyes - Leptoceratopsidae

Taxonomy
Cerasinops hodgskissi was named by Chinnery and Horner (2007). Its type specimen is MOR 300, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Red Rocks Site, MOR TM-012, which is in a Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Two Medicine Formation of Montana. It is the type species of Cerasinops.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2007Cerasinops hodgskissi Chinnery and Horner p. 626 figs. 1-4
2012Cerasinops hogkissi Ryan et al. p. 69

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Cerapoda
—Marginocephalia
—Ceratopsia()
infraorderNeoceratopsia
familyLeptoceratopsidae()
genusCerasinops
specieshodgskissi

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.

†Cerasinops hodgskissi Chinnery and Horner 2007
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: gregariouso
Environment: terrestrialsubo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingsubo
Diet: herbivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2005-09-15 11:08:09
Modified: 2005-09-15 13:08:09
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Kiessling 2004, Marsh 1875, Norman and Weishampel 1991

Age range: base of the Middle Campanian to the top of the Late/Upper Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Campanian83.6 - 72.2USA (Montana) Cerasinops hodgskissi (type locality: 100851)
Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian83.6 - 72.2USA (Montana) Ceratopsia indet. (53999) Leptoceratops sp. (54000)