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Proceratosaurus
Taxonomy
Proceratosaurus was named by Huene (1926). It is the type genus of Proceratosauridae.
It was synonymized subjectively with Megalosaurus by Romer (1956).
It was assigned to Megalosaurinidae by Romer (1966) and Steel (1970); to Ceratosauridae by Huene (1926), Stromer (1934), Tatarinov (1964), Welles (1984) and Carroll (1988); to Ornitholestinae by Paul (1988) and Paul (1988); to Coelurosauria by Kuhn (1939), Holtz (2000) and Holtz et al. (2004); to Coelurosauria by Holtz (1998), Rauhut (2003), Yates (2005), Naish and Martill (2007), Choiniere et al. (2010) and Carrano et al. (2012); to Tyrannosauroidea by Li et al. (2009), Lü et al. (2014) and Hendrickx and Mateus (2014); and to Proceratosauridae by Rauhut et al. (2010) and Carr et al. (2017).
It was synonymized subjectively with Megalosaurus by Romer (1956).
It was assigned to Megalosaurinidae by Romer (1966) and Steel (1970); to Ceratosauridae by Huene (1926), Stromer (1934), Tatarinov (1964), Welles (1984) and Carroll (1988); to Ornitholestinae by Paul (1988) and Paul (1988); to Coelurosauria by Kuhn (1939), Holtz (2000) and Holtz et al. (2004); to Coelurosauria by Holtz (1998), Rauhut (2003), Yates (2005), Naish and Martill (2007), Choiniere et al. (2010) and Carrano et al. (2012); to Tyrannosauroidea by Li et al. (2009), Lü et al. (2014) and Hendrickx and Mateus (2014); and to Proceratosauridae by Rauhut et al. (2010) and Carr et al. (2017).
Species
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1926 | Proceratosaurus Huene p. 96 |
1934 | Proceratosaurus Stromer p. 80 |
1939 | Proceratosaurus Kuhn p. 41 |
1964 | Proceratosaurus Tatarinov p. 538 |
1966 | Proceratosaurus Romer p. 369 |
1970 | Proceratosaurus Steel p. 36 |
1984 | Proceratosaurus Welles p. 177 |
1988 | Proceratosaurus Carroll |
1988 | Proceratosaurus Paul p. 5 fig. 1 |
1998 | Proceratosaurus Holtz, Jr. p. 40 |
2000 | Proceratosaurus Holtz, Jr. p. 13 fig. 5 |
2003 | Proceratosaurus Rauhut p. 149 |
2004 | Proceratosaurus Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 76 |
2005 | Proceratosaurus Yates p. 118 fig. 9 |
2007 | Proceratosaurus Naish and Martill p. 503 |
2009 | Proceratosaurus Li et al. |
2010 | Proceratosaurus Choiniere et al. p. 1793 |
2010 | Proceratosaurus Rauhut et al. p. 183 fig. 23 |
2012 | Proceratosaurus Carrano et al. p. 248 fig. 7 |
2014 | Proceratosaurus Hendrickx and Mateus |
2014 | Proceratosaurus Lü et al. |
2017 | Proceratosaurus Carr et al. p. 9s |
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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.
Diagnosis
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O. W. M. Rauhut et al. 2010 | As for the type, and only known, species. |
Measurements
No measurements are available
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References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875 |
Age range: base of the Middle Bathonian to the top of the Late/Upper Bathonian or 167.70000 to 164.70000 Ma
Collections: one only
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Middle Bathonian - Late/Upper Bathonian | United Kingdom (England) | Megalosaurus bradleyi (45883) |