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Centrosaurus
Taxonomy
Centrosaurus was named by Lambe (1905). It is the type genus of Centrosaurinae, Centrosaurini.
It was synonymized subjectively with Monoclonius by Lull (1924), Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964) and Kuhn (1964); it was replaced with Eucentrosaurus by Chure and McIntosh (1989) and Olshevsky and Ford (1994).
It was assigned to Agathaumidae by Lull (1906); to Ceratopsidae by Lambe (1905), Huene (1909), von Zittel (1911), Abel (1924), Gregory and Mook (1925), Huene (1927), Hay (1930), Russell (1930), Lull (1933), Parks (1935), Sternberg (1940), Sternberg (1949), Parsch (1963), Romer (1966), Molnar (1980), Lehman (1981), McIntosh (1981), Dodson (1983), Russell (1984), Clemens (1986), Carroll (1988), Makovicky (2001), You and Dodson (2003) and Longrich (2008); to Centrosaurinae by Lambe (1915), Dodson and Currie (1990), Dodson (1990), Lehman (1990), Sampson (1994), Lehman (1996), Vickaryous and Ryan (1997), Dodson (1997), Eberth et al. (2001), Ryan and Russell (2003), Dodson et al. (2004), Farke (2004), Ryan and Evans (2005), Ryan and Russell (2005), Ryan (2007), Longrich (2010), McDonald and Horner (2010), Xu et al. (2010), Ryan et al. (2010), McDonald (2011), Farke et al. (2011), Maidment and Barrett (2011), Fiorillo and Tykoski (2012), Ryan et al. (2012), Holmes and Ryan (2013) and Evans and Ryan (2015); and to Centrosaurini by Ryan et al. (2017).
It was synonymized subjectively with Monoclonius by Lull (1924), Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964) and Kuhn (1964); it was replaced with Eucentrosaurus by Chure and McIntosh (1989) and Olshevsky and Ford (1994).
It was assigned to Agathaumidae by Lull (1906); to Ceratopsidae by Lambe (1905), Huene (1909), von Zittel (1911), Abel (1924), Gregory and Mook (1925), Huene (1927), Hay (1930), Russell (1930), Lull (1933), Parks (1935), Sternberg (1940), Sternberg (1949), Parsch (1963), Romer (1966), Molnar (1980), Lehman (1981), McIntosh (1981), Dodson (1983), Russell (1984), Clemens (1986), Carroll (1988), Makovicky (2001), You and Dodson (2003) and Longrich (2008); to Centrosaurinae by Lambe (1915), Dodson and Currie (1990), Dodson (1990), Lehman (1990), Sampson (1994), Lehman (1996), Vickaryous and Ryan (1997), Dodson (1997), Eberth et al. (2001), Ryan and Russell (2003), Dodson et al. (2004), Farke (2004), Ryan and Evans (2005), Ryan and Russell (2005), Ryan (2007), Longrich (2010), McDonald and Horner (2010), Xu et al. (2010), Ryan et al. (2010), McDonald (2011), Farke et al. (2011), Maidment and Barrett (2011), Fiorillo and Tykoski (2012), Ryan et al. (2012), Holmes and Ryan (2013) and Evans and Ryan (2015); and to Centrosaurini by Ryan et al. (2017).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1905 | Centrosaurus Lambe |
| 1906 | Centrosaurus Lull p. 144 |
| 1909 | Centrosaurus Huene p. 17 |
| 1911 | Centrosaurus von Zittel p. 296 |
| 1915 | Centrosaurus Lambe p. 20 |
| 1924 | Centrosaurus Abel p. 712 |
| 1925 | Centrosaurus Gregory and Mook p. 6 |
| 1927 | Centrosaurus Huene p. 261 |
| 1930 | Centrosaurus Hay p. 224 |
| 1930 | Centrosaurus Russell p. 149 |
| 1933 | Centrosaurus Lull p. 84 |
| 1935 | Centrosaurus Parks p. 194 |
| 1940 | Centrosaurus Sternberg p. 473 |
| 1949 | Centrosaurus Sternberg p. 41 fig. 1 |
| 1963 | Centrosaurus Parsch p. 8 |
| 1966 | Centrosaurus Romer p. 371 |
| 1980 | Centrosaurus Molnar p. 138 |
| 1981 | Centrosaurus Lehman p. 207 |
| 1981 | Centrosaurus McIntosh p. 41 |
| 1983 | Centrosaurus Dodson p. 94 |
| 1984 | Centrosaurus Russell p. 25 |
| 1986 | Centrosaurus Clemens p. 80 |
| 1988 | Centrosaurus Carroll |
| 1990 | Centrosaurus Dodson p. 241 |
| 1990 | Centrosaurus Dodson and Currie p. 611 |
| 1990 | Centrosaurus Lehman p. 212 |
| 1994 | Centrosaurus Sampson p. 44A |
| 1996 | Centrosaurus Lehman p. 506 |
| 1997 | Centrosaurus Dodson p. 476 |
| 1997 | Centrosaurus Vickaryous and Ryan p. 492 |
| 2001 | Centrosaurus Eberth et al. p. 57 |
| 2001 | Centrosaurus Makovicky p. 254 fig. 18.3 |
| 2003 | Centrosaurus Ryan and Russell p. 91A |
| 2003 | Centrosaurus You and Dodson |
| 2004 | Centrosaurus Dodson et al. p. 495 |
| 2004 | Centrosaurus Farke p. 5 |
| 2005 | Centrosaurus Ryan and Evans p. 327 |
| 2005 | Centrosaurus Ryan and Russell p. 1370 |
| 2007 | Centrosaurus Ryan p. 391 fig. 12 |
| 2008 | Centrosaurus Longrich p. 994 |
| 2010 | Centrosaurus Longrich p. 692 fig. 10 |
| 2010 | Centrosaurus McDonald and Horner p. 160 fig. 10.5 |
| 2010 | Centrosaurus Ryan et al. p. 185 |
| 2010 | Centrosaurus Xu et al. p. 1634 fig. 3 |
| 2011 | Centrosaurus Farke et al. p. 699 |
| 2011 | Centrosaurus Maidment and Barrett p. 36 |
| 2011 | Centrosaurus McDonald p. 9 |
| 2012 | Centrosaurus Fiorillo and Tykoski |
| 2012 | Centrosaurus Ryan et al. p. 79 |
| 2013 | Centrosaurus Holmes and Ryan p. 23 |
| 2015 | Centrosaurus Evans and Ryan |
| 2017 | Centrosaurus Ryan et al. p. 9 |
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G. †Centrosaurus Lambe 1905
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†Centrosaurus apertus Lambe 1905
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Invalid names: Centrosaurus longirostris Sternberg 1940 [synonym], Monoclonius cutleri Brown 1917 [synonym], Monoclonius dawsoni Lambe 1902 [synonym], Monoclonius flexus Brown 1914 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available