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Leptoceratopsidae (leptoceratopsid)
Taxonomy
Leptoceratopsinae was named by Nopcsa (1923). Its type is Leptoceratops.
It was reranked as the family Leptoceratopsidae by Makovicky (2001), You and Dodson (2003), Chinnery (2004), Chinnery and Horner (2007), Butler et al. (2008), Han et al. (2012), Farke et al. (2014), Zheng et al. (2015), Morschhauser et al. (2019) and Arbour and Evans (2019).
It was assigned to Ceratopsidae by Nopcsa (1923), Nopcsa (1928), Nopcsa (1929), Huene (1934) and Huene (1934); to Ceratopsoidea by You and Dodson (2003); to Neoceratopsia by Makovicky (2001), Chinnery (2004), Chinnery and Horner (2007), Butler et al. (2008), Han et al. (2012), Farke et al. (2014) and Zheng et al. (2015); and to Coronosauria by Morschhauser et al. (2019) and Arbour and Evans (2019).
It was reranked as the family Leptoceratopsidae by Makovicky (2001), You and Dodson (2003), Chinnery (2004), Chinnery and Horner (2007), Butler et al. (2008), Han et al. (2012), Farke et al. (2014), Zheng et al. (2015), Morschhauser et al. (2019) and Arbour and Evans (2019).
It was assigned to Ceratopsidae by Nopcsa (1923), Nopcsa (1928), Nopcsa (1929), Huene (1934) and Huene (1934); to Ceratopsoidea by You and Dodson (2003); to Neoceratopsia by Makovicky (2001), Chinnery (2004), Chinnery and Horner (2007), Butler et al. (2008), Han et al. (2012), Farke et al. (2014) and Zheng et al. (2015); and to Coronosauria by Morschhauser et al. (2019) and Arbour and Evans (2019).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1923 | Leptoceratopsinae Nopcsa p. 126 |
| 1928 | Leptoceratopsinae Nopcsa p. 185 |
| 1929 | Leptoceratopsinae Nopcsa p. 71 |
| 1934 | Leptoceratopsinae Huene p. 15 |
| 2001 | Leptoceratopsidae Makovicky p. 254 |
| 2003 | Leptoceratopsidae You and Dodson |
| 2004 | Leptoceratopsidae Chinnery pp. 584-585 fig. 9 |
| 2007 | Leptoceratopsidae Chinnery and Horner p. 638 fig. 6 |
| 2008 | Leptoceratopsidae Butler et al. p. 22 figs. 2-4 |
| 2012 | Leptoceratopsidae Han et al. p. 1391 fig. 14 |
| 2014 | Leptoceratopsidae Farke et al. |
| 2015 | Leptoceratopsidae Zheng et al. p. 6 fig. 3 |
| 2019 | Leptoceratopsidae Arbour and Evans |
| 2019 | Leptoceratopsidae Morschhauser et al. p. 129 fig. 10 |
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Fm. †Leptoceratopsidae Nopcsa 1923 [leptoceratopsid]
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| B. F. Nopcsa 1928 | no horns; fringe well developed, mandible robust |