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Kentrosaurus
Taxonomy
Kentrosaurus was named by Hennig (1915). It is the type genus of Kentrosauridae.
It was replaced with Kentrurosaurus by Hennig (1916), Hoffstetter (1957) and Kuhn (1964).
It was assigned to Kentrosauridae by Olshevsky and Ford (1993) and Blows (2001); to Stegosaurinae by Romer (1956), Dong et al. (1983), Zhou (1983), Zhou (1986) and Maidment et al. (2008); to Stegosauridae by Hennig (1915), Hennig (1915), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Swinton (1970), Galton (1977), Galton (1980), Bonaparte (1986), Carroll (1988), Galton (1990), Carpenter et al. (2001), Galton and Upchurch (2004), Maidment et al. (2006) and Mateus et al. (2009); to Stegosauria by Mallison (2011); and to Kentrurosaurinae by Ulansky (2014).
It was replaced with Kentrurosaurus by Hennig (1916), Hoffstetter (1957) and Kuhn (1964).
It was assigned to Kentrosauridae by Olshevsky and Ford (1993) and Blows (2001); to Stegosaurinae by Romer (1956), Dong et al. (1983), Zhou (1983), Zhou (1986) and Maidment et al. (2008); to Stegosauridae by Hennig (1915), Hennig (1915), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Swinton (1970), Galton (1977), Galton (1980), Bonaparte (1986), Carroll (1988), Galton (1990), Carpenter et al. (2001), Galton and Upchurch (2004), Maidment et al. (2006) and Mateus et al. (2009); to Stegosauria by Mallison (2011); and to Kentrurosaurinae by Ulansky (2014).
Species
Synonyms
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1915 | Kentrosaurus Hennig p. 12 |
| 1916 | Kentrurosaurus Hennig p. 176 |
| 1916 | Doryphorosaurus Nopcsa |
| 1928 | Kentrurosaurus Nopcsa p. 185 |
| 1934 | Kentrurosaurus Chakravarti p. 78 |
| 1944 | Kentrorosaurus Young p. 203 |
| 1956 | Kentrosaurus Romer p. 634 |
| 1958 | Kentrurosaurus Hoffstetter and Brun p. 72 |
| 1959 | Kentrurosaurus Young pp. 7-8 |
| 1964 | Kentrurosaurus Kuhn p. 35 |
| 1964 | Kentrosaurus Tatarinov p. 572 |
| 1966 | Kentrosaurus Romer p. 370 |
| 1967 | Kentrosaurus Charig p. 715 |
| 1970 | Kentrosaurus Swinton p. 244 |
| 1973 | Kentrurosaurus Delair p. 6 |
| 1977 | Kentrosaurus Galton p. 230 |
| 1980 | Kentrosaurus Galton p. 832 |
| 1983 | Kentrosaurus Dong et al. p. 137 |
| 1983 | Kentrosaurus Zhou p. 26 |
| 1986 | Kentrosaurus Bonaparte p. 84 |
| 1986 | Kentrosaurus Zhou p. 35 |
| 1988 | Kentrosaurus Carroll |
| 1990 | Kentrosaurus Galton |
| 1993 | Kentrosaurus Olshevsky and Ford |
| 2001 | Kentrosaurus Blows p. 137 |
| 2001 | Kentrosaurus Carpenter et al. p. 73 fig. 3.14 |
| 2004 | Kentrosaurus Galton and Upchurch p. 344 |
| 2006 | Kentrosaurus Maidment et al. p. 951 fig. 8 |
| 2008 | Kentrosaurus Maidment et al. p. 390 fig. 11 |
| 2009 | Kentrosaurus Mateus et al. |
| 2011 | Kentrosaurus Mallison p. 201 |
| 2014 | Kentrosaurus Ulansky p. 6 |
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G. †Kentrosaurus Hennig 1915
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†Kentrosaurus aethiopicus Hennig 1915
Invalid names: Doryphorosaurus Nopcsa 1916 [synonym], Kentrurosaurus Hennig 1916 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| S. C. R. Maidment et al. 2008 | As for type and only known species. | |
| H. Mallison 2011 | As for type and only species, see below. |