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Leptoceratops

Reptilia - Leptoceratopsidae

Taxonomy
Leptoceratops was named by Brown (1914). It is the type genus of Leptoceratopsinae.

It was assigned to Ceratopsia by Brown (1914); to Ceratopsidae by Joleaud (1922), Huene (1927), Hay (1930) and Russell (1930); to Leptoceratopsinae by Nopcsa (1928), Huene (1934) and Huene (1934); to Protoceratopidae by Olshevsky and Ford (1994) and Tereshchenko and Alifanov (2003); to Neoceratopsia by Sereno (1986), Chinnery and Weishampel (1996), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Wolfe and Kirkland (1998), Sereno (1999), Sereno (2000), You and Dodson (2004), Ryan and Evans (2005) and Campione and Holmes (2006); to Protoceratopsidae by Gregory and Mook (1925), Lull (1933), Chakravarti (1934), Gilmore (1939), Brown and Schlaikjer (1942), Huene (1950), Sternberg (1951), Romer (1956), Parsch (1963), Tatarinov (1964), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Russell (1970), Swinton (1970), McKenna and Love (1970), Maryanska and Osmólska (1975), Sues and Galton (1982), Russell (1984), Breithaupt (1985), Clemens (1986), Ostrom and Wellnhofer (1986), Carroll (1988), Dodson and Currie (1990), Kurzanov (1992), Lehman (1996), Dodson (1997), Eberth (1997), Dodson (1997), Ryan and Currie (1998), Chinnery and Weishampel (1998), Eberth et al. (2001), Ott (2007) and Sues and Averianov (2009); to Ceratopsia by Tanoue et al. (2009); and to Leptoceratopsidae by Makovicky (2001), You and Dodson (2003), Chinnery (2004), Chinnery and Horner (2007), Xu et al. (2010), Ryan et al. (2012), Farke et al. (2014), Zheng et al. (2015) and Morschhauser et al. (2019).

Species
L. gracilis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1914Leptoceratops Brown p. 567
1922Leptoceratops Joleaud p. 65
1925Leptoceratops Gregory and Mook p. 4
1927Leptoceratops Huene p. 261
1928Leptoceratops Nopcsa p. 185
1930Leptoceratops Hay p. 226
1930Leptoceratops Russell p. 151
1933Leptoceratops Lull p. 74
1934Leptoceratops Chakravarti p. 78
1934Leptoceratops Huene p. 17
1939Leptoceratops Gilmore p. 1
1942Leptoceratops Brown and Schlaikjer p. 2
1950Leptoceratops Huene p. 351
1951Leptoceratops Sternberg p. 228
1956Leptoceratops Romer p. 638
1963Leptoceratops Parsch p. 8
1964Leptoceratops Kuhn p. 53
1964Leptoceratops Tatarinov p. 581
1966Leptoceratops Romer p. 370
1967Leptoceratops Charig p. 717
1970Leptoceratops McKenna and Love p. D59
1970Leptoceratops Russell p. 182
1970Leptoceratops Swinton p. 258
1975Leptoceratops Maryanska and Osmólska p. 170
1982Leptoceratops Sues and Galton p. 189
1984Leptoceratops Russell p. 27
1985Leptoceratops Breithaupt p. 170
1986Leptoceratops Clemens p. 80
1986Leptoceratops Ostrom and Wellnhofer p. 116
1986Leptoceratops Sereno
1988Leptoceratops Carroll
1990Leptoceratops Dodson and Currie p. 611
1992Leptoceratops Kurzanov p. 105
1994Leptoceratops Olshevsky and Ford
1996Leptoceratops Chinnery and Weishampel p. 27A
1996Leptoceratops Lehman p. 505
1997Leptoceratops Dodson p. 12
1997Leptoceratops Eberth p. 202
1997Leptoceratops Sereno p. 440 fig. 2
1998Leptoceratops Chinnery and Weishampel p. 578 fig. 10
1998Leptoceratops Ryan and Currie p. 821
1998Leptoceratops Sereno p. 68 fig. 6
1998Leptoceratops Wolfe and Kirkland p. 307 fig. 5
1999Leptoceratops Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2
2000Leptoceratops Sereno p. 498 fig. 25.8
2001Leptoceratops Eberth et al. p. 59
2001Leptoceratops Makovicky p. 254 fig. 18.3
2003Leptoceratops Tereshchenko and Alifanov p. 293
2003Leptoceratops You and Dodson
2004Leptoceratops Chinnery pp. 584-585 fig. 9
2004Leptoceratops You and Dodson p. 480
2005Leptoceratops Ryan and Evans p. 323
2006Leptoceratops Campione and Holmes p. 1014
2007Leptoceratops Chinnery and Horner p. 638 fig. 6
2007Leptoceratops Ott p. 214
2009Leptoceratops Sues and Averianov pp. 650-651 fig. 4
2009Leptoceratops Tanoue et al. p. 426
2010Leptoceratops Xu et al. pp. 10, 13 fig. 9
2012Leptoceratops Ryan et al. p. 77 fig. 7
2014Leptoceratops Farke et al.
2015Leptoceratops Zheng et al. p. 6 fig. 3
2019Leptoceratops Morschhauser et al. p. 95

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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
familyLeptoceratopsidae()
genusLeptoceratops

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. †Leptoceratops Brown 1914
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†Leptoceratops gracilis Brown 1914
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available