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Zuniceratops christopheri

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Zuniceratops christopheri was named by Wolfe and Kirkland (1998). Its type specimen is MSM P2101 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Haystack Butte, MSM 98-65, which is in a Turonian crevasse splay mudstone in the Moreno Hill Formation of New Mexico. It is the type species of Zuniceratops.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Zuniceratops christopheri Wolfe and Kirkland p. 307 figs. 6-10
2000Zuniceratops christopheri Wolfe p. 93
2001Zuniceratops christopheri Makovicky p. 254 fig. 18.3
2004Zuniceratops christopheri Chinnery p. 585
2004Zuniceratops christopheri You and Dodson p. 480
2008Zuniceratops christopheri Currie et al. p. 84
2010Zuniceratops christopheri Longrich p. 692 fig. 10
2011Zuniceratops christopheri Farke et al. p. 697
2013Zuniceratops christopheri Loewen et al. p. 490
2013Zuniceratops christopheri Longrich p. 51
2017Zuniceratops christopheri Manabe et al. p. 32

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
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
—Coronosauria
superfamilyCeratopsoidea
genusZuniceratops
specieschristopheri

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.

†Zuniceratops christopheri Wolfe and Kirkland 1998
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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: Norman and Weishampel 1991, Marsh 1875

Age range: Middle Turonian or 93.50000 to 89.30000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Turonian93.5 - 89.3USA (New Mexico) Zuniceratops christopheri (52033 52358 type locality: 52359)