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Monoclonius

Reptilia - Ceratopsidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1876Monoclonius Cope
1877Monoclonius Cope p. 573
1883Monoclonius Cope p. 99
1889Monoclonius Cope p. 716
1889Monoclonius recurvicornis Cope p. 716
1889Monoclonius sphenocerus Cope p. 716
1889Monoclonius fissus Cope p. 717
1889Monoclonius Cope p. 906
1892Monoclonius sphenocerus Cope p. 757
1892Monoclonius Seeley
1895Monoclonius Marsh
1896Monoclonius recurvicornis Hatcher p. 113
1896Monoclonius Marsh p. 243
1901Monoclonius Nopcsa p. 216
1901Monoclonius fissus Nopcsa p. 216
1901Monoclonius recurvicornis Nopcsa p. 216
1901Monoclonius sphenocoerus Nopcsa p. 216
1902Monoclonius Hay p. 499
1902Monoclonius fissus Hay p. 500
1902Monoclonius recurvicornis Hay p. 500
1902Monoclonius sphenocerus Hay p. 500
1902Monoclonius Lambe p. 57
1902Monoclonius recurvicornis Lambe p. 68
1902Monoclonius sphenoceras Lambe p. 68
1905Ceratops recurvicornis Hatcher
1905Monoclonius Lambe p. 3
1905Monoclonius fissus Lambe p. 24
1905Monoclonius recurvicornis Lambe p. 24
1905Monoclonius sphenocerus Lambe p. 24
1905Monoclonius Lambe p. 49
1906Monoclonius Lull p. 144
1907Monoclonius Hatcher et al. pp. 12, 70
1907Ceratops recurvicornis Hatcher et al. p. 86–87
1907Monoclonius sphenocerus Hatcher et al. pp. 87–88, 167
1909Monoclonius Huene p. 17
1910Ceratops recurvicornis Lull p. 772
1911Monoclonius Lambe p. 9
1911Monoclonius von Zittel p. 296
1913Monoclonius sphenocerus Lambe p. 115
1913Agathaumas sphenoceros Tornier p. 375 fig. 53
1914Ceratops recurvicornis Brown p. 549
1915Styracosaurus sphenocerus Lambe p. 18
1915Monoclonius Matthew p. 30
1917Monoclonius Brown p. 285
1922Monoclonius Joleaud p. 64
1924Monoclonius Abel p. 712
1924Monoclonius Lull p. 245
1925Monoclonius Gregory and Mook p. 6
1927Monoclonius Huene p. 259
1927Ceratops recurvicornis Huene p. 261
1927Monoclonius sphenocerus Huene p. 261
1928Monoclonius Nopcsa p. 185
1929Monoclonius Nopcsa p. 69ff
1930Ceratops recurvicornis Arldt p. 702
1930Monoclonius Hay p. 221
1930Monoclonius fissus Hay p. 222
1930Monoclonius recurvicornis Hay p. 222
1930Styracosaurus sphenocerus Hay p. 225
1930Ceratops recurvicornis Russell p. 142
1930Monoclonius Russell p. 142
1930Monoclonius sphenocerus Russell p. 142
1933Monoclonius Lull p. 81
1933Monoclonius recurvicornis Lull p. 83
1933Monoclonius sphenocerus Lull p. 83
1934Monoclonius Chakravarti p. 78
1938Centrosaurus recurvicornis Sternberg p. 286
1938Monoclonius sphenocerus Sternberg p. 286
1940Centrosaurus recurvicornis Sternberg p. 468
1940Monoclonius Sternberg p. 468
1940Monoclonius sphenocerus Sternberg p. 468
1949Monoclonius Sternberg p. 41 fig. 1
1950Monoclonius Huene p. 351
1956Monoclonius Romer p. 639
1963Monoclonius Parsch p. 8
1964Monoclonius Kuhn p. 57
1964Monoclonius fissus Kuhn p. 57
1964Monoclonius recurvicornis Kuhn p. 57
1964Monoclonius sphenocerus Kuhn p. 57
1964Ceratops recurvicornis Russell p. 10
1964Monoclonius sphenocerus Russell p. 10
1964Monoclonius Tatarinov p. 583
1966Monoclonius Romer p. 371
1967Monoclonius Charig p. 717
1970Monoclonius Swinton p. 259
1973Monoclonius Powell p. 118
1975Centrosaurus recurvatus Langston p. 1584
1980Monoclonius Molnar p. 138
1980Monoclonius Wolberg p. 42
1981Monoclonius Lehman p. 207
1983Monoclonius Dodson p. 94
1984Monoclonius Russell p. 25
1986Monoclonius Clemens p. 80
1986Monoclonius Ostrom and Wellnhofer p. 116
1988Monoclonius Carroll
1990Monoclonius Dodson p. 241
1990Monoclonius Dodson and Currie p. 611
1990Monoclonius Lehman p. 212
1997Monoclonius Dodson p. 12
1997Monoclonius Eberth p. 202
2004Monoclonius Dodson et al. p. 495

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
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
familyCeratopsidae
subfamilyCentrosaurinae
genusMonoclonius

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. †Monoclonius Cope 1876
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Monoclonius crassus Cope 1876
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Invalid names: Monoclonius lowei Sternberg 1940 [synonym]
Invalid names: Monoclonius fissus Cope 1889 [nomen dubium], Monoclonius recurvicornis Cope 1889 [nomen dubium], Monoclonius sphenocerus Cope 1889 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. B. Hatcher et al. 1907"The chief distinctive characters of this genus are its small size, the diminutive supraorbital horn cores pointing directly upward; the short, broad, and widely fenestrated parietals; the short squamosals, as indicated by the squamosal border on the parietals in the type...the size and form of the parietals, squamosals, and supraorbital horn cores and the characters of the sacrum and the relative proportions of the fore and hind limbs, as described by Cope, may be considered as fairly diagnostic of the genus and as placing it on a valid foundation..."
B. Brown 1917Skull small to medium sized with three horns; nasal horn large, curved or straight, rising from middle of nasals immediately above the posterior border of the nares; supraorbital horns small or incipient. Nasals large; nares nearly separated by osseous septum formed by premaxillaries and nasals. Premaxilaries deep with vertical plate forming septum non-fenestrated. Crest composed of short, broad squamosals and extension of elongate coossified postfrontals or derm-supraoccipitals (parietals) perforated by large fenestrae; each fenestra wholly within the boundary of the derm-supraoccipitals. Margin of crest crenulated, each prominence bearing a separate ossification. A pair of long curved hook-like processes on posterior border of derm-supraoccipitals, orbit round, eye with sclerotic bony plates.