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Anchiceratops

Reptilia - Ceratopsidae

Taxonomy

Anchiceratops was named by Brown (1914). Its type is Anchiceratops ornatus.

It was assigned to Ceratopsia by Brown (1914); to Eoceratopsinae by Lambe (1915); to Ceratopsinae by Nopcsa (1928), Huene (1950) and Tatarinov (1964); to Ceratopinae by Olshevsky and Ford (1994); to Ceratopsidae by Matthew (1915), Huene (1927), Hay (1930), Russell (1930), Lull (1933), Parks (1935), Romer (1956), Parsch (1963), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Russell and Chamney (1967), Swinton (1970), Molnar (1980), Russell (1984), Ostrom and Wellnhofer (1986), Clemens (1986), Carroll (1988), Eberth (1997) and Longrich (2008); and to Chasmosaurinae by Dodson and Currie (1990), Lehman (1990), Lehman (1996), Dodson (1997), Lehman (1998), Eberth et al. (2001), Dodson et al. (2004), Farke (2004), Diem and Archibald (2005), Wu et al. (2007), Ryan (2007), Hunt and Lehman (2008), Longrich (2010), Xu et al. (2010), Ryan et al. (2010), Farke (2011), Holmes and Ryan (2013) and Longrich (2014).

Species

A. ornatus (syn. A. longirostris) (type species)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1914	Anchiceratops Brown p. 539
1915	Anchiceratops Lambe p. 19
1915	Anchiceratops Matthew p. 30
1927	Anchiceratops Huene p. 261
1928	Anchiceratops Nopcsa p. 185
1930	Anchiceratops Hay p. 226
1930	Anchiceratops Russell p. 151
1933	Anchiceratops Lull p. 102
1935	Anchiceratops Parks p. 193
1950	Anchiceratops Huene p. 351
1956	Anchiceratops Romer p. 638
1963	Anchiceratops Parsch p. 8
1964	Anchiceratops Kuhn p. 55
1964	Anchiceratops Tatarinov p. 585
1966	Anchiceratops Romer p. 371
1967	Anchiceratops Charig p. 717
1967	Anchiceratops Russell and Chamney p. 11
1970	Anchiceratops Swinton p. 259
1980	Anchiceratops Molnar p. 138
1984	Anchiceratops Russell p. 25
1986	Anchiceratops Clemens p. 80
1986	Anchiceratops Ostrom and Wellnhofer p. 116
1988	Anchiceratops Carroll
1990	Anchiceratops Dodson and Currie p. 612
1990	Anchiceratops Lehman p. 212
1994	Anchiceratops Olshevsky and Ford
1996	Anchiceratops Lehman p. 505 fig. 10
1997	Anchiceratops Dodson p. 474
1997	Anchiceratops Eberth p. 201
1998	Anchiceratops Lehman p. 903
2001	Anchiceratops Eberth et al. p. 59
2004	Anchiceratops Dodson et al. p. 495
2004	Anchiceratops Farke p. 4
2005	Anchiceratops Diem and Archibald p. 251
2007	Anchiceratops Ryan p. 391 fig. 12
2007	Anchiceratops Wu et al. p. 1261 fig. 14
2008	Anchiceratops Hunt and Lehman p. 1132
2008	Anchiceratops Longrich p. 994
2010	Anchiceratops Longrich p. 692 fig. 10
2010	Anchiceratops Ryan et al. p. 185
2010	Anchiceratops Xu et al. p. 1634 fig. 3
2011	Anchiceratops Farke p. 6
2013	Anchiceratops Holmes and Ryan p. 8
2014	Anchiceratops Longrich p. 303 fig. 8

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Ornithischia	()
—	Genasauria
—	Cerapoda
—	Marginocephalia
—	Ceratopsia	()
family	Ceratopsidae
subfamily	Chasmosaurinae
genus	Anchiceratops

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. †Anchiceratops Brown 1914

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†Anchiceratops ornatus Brown 1914

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Invalid names: Anchiceratops longirostris Sternberg 1926 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteo

Entire body:

yesg

Adult length:

10 to < 100o

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10o

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10o

Maximum body mass:

10000 kgg

Minimum body mass:

3000 kgg

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:

2005-08-25 05:45:52

Modified:

2005-08-25 07:45:52

Source: g = genus, subo = suborder, o = order

References: Norman and Weishampel 1991, Marsh 1875, Peczkis 1995

Age range: Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 70.60000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (7 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian	83.5 - 66.0	Canada (Alberta)	A. longirostris (28548) A. ornatus (191402) A. sp. (52072) Ceratopsia indet. (64629)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian	70.6 - 66.0	Canada (Alberta)	A. ornatus (64630 76062 191401)