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Ceratopsoidea ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	52820	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=52820

Rank

superfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Ceratopsoidea

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Ornithischia
-	Neornithischia
-	Clypeodonta	Norman 2014
-	Cerapoda	Sereno 1986
-	Marginocephalia	Sereno 1986
-	Ceratopsia
infraorder	Neoceratopsia	Sereno 1986
-	Coronosauria	Sereno 1986
superfamily	Ceratopsoidea	Hay 1902

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ceratopsoidea	superfamily	belongs to Orthopoda	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Ceratopsoidea	superfamily	belongs to Pachycephalosauria	stated without evidence	Zhao, 1983
Ceratopsoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neornithopoda	stated without evidence	Norman, 1984
Ceratopsoidea	superfamily	belongs to Ceratopsia	stated without evidence	Cooper, 1985
Ceratopsoidea	superfamily	belongs to Coronosauria	stated with evidence	Sereno, 1986
Ceratopsoidea	superfamily	belongs to Coronosauria	stated without evidence	Sereno, 1997
Ceratopsoidea	superfamily	belongs to Coronosauria	stated with evidence	Sereno, 1998
Ceratopsoidea	superfamily	belongs to Coronosauria	stated without evidence	Makovicky, 2001
Ceratopsoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neoceratopsia	stated with evidence	Lambert et al., 2001
Ceratopsoidea	superfamily	belongs to Coronosauria	stated without evidence	You and Dodson, 2003
Ceratopsoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neoceratopsia	stated without evidence	Chinnery and Horner, 2007
Ceratopsoidea	superfamily	belongs to Coronosauria	stated without evidence	Butler et al., 2008
Ceratopsoidea	superfamily	belongs to Coronosauria	stated with evidence	Farke et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

105

First Recorded Appearance

93.5 - 89.3 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Ceratopsia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Ornithischia)

Diet

herbivore (based on Ceratopsia)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Ornithischia)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Ornithischia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

O. P. Hay. 1902. Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179:1-868

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ceratopsidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Ceratopsid	635	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ajkaceratops ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Turanoceratops ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		6	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Zuniceratops ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		3	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1902	Ceratopsoidea Hay p. 497
1930	Ceratopsoidae Hay p. 219
1983	Ceratopsoidea Zhao pp. 300-301
1984	Ceratopsoidea Norman pp. 160-161 fig. 2
1985	Ceratopsoidea Cooper p. 292
1986	Ceratopsoidea Sereno
1997	Ceratopsoidea Sereno p. 443
1998	Ceratopsoidea Sereno p. 62
1999	Ceratopsoidea Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2

Year	Name and Author
2000	Ceratopsoidea Sereno p. 482
2001	Ceratopsoidea Lambert et al. p. 18
2001	Ceratopsoidea Makovicky p. 254 fig. 18.3
2003	Ceratopsoidea You and Dodson
2007	Ceratopsoidea Chinnery and Horner p. 638 fig. 6
2008	Ceratopsoidea Butler et al. p. 8
2014	Ceratopsoidea Farke et al.
2019	Ceratopsoidea Morschhauser et al. p. 129 fig. 10

References

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Hay O. P. (1930) Second Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America, Carnegie Institution of Washington 390 II, 1-1074

Zhao X. (1983) Phylogeny and evolutionary stages of Dinosauria, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 28 1-2, 295-306

Sereno P. C. (1986) Phylogeny of the bird-hipped dinosaurs (order Ornithischia), National Geographic Research 2 2, 234-256

Sereno P. C. (1997) The origin and evolution of dinosaurs, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 25, 435-489

Sereno P. C. (1998) A rationale for phylogenetic definitions, with application to the higher-level taxonomy of Dinosauria, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 210 1, 41-83

Sereno P. C. (1999) The evolution of dinosaurs, Science 284, 2137-2147

Sereno P. C. (2000) The fossil record, systematics and evolution of pachycephalosaurs and ceratopsians from Asia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 480-516

Lambert O., Godefroit P., et al (2001) A new species of Protoceratops (Dinosauria, Neoceratopsia) from the Late Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia (P. R. China), Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Science de la Terre 71 supplement, 5-28

Makovicky P. J. (2001) A Montanoceratops cerorhynchus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) braincase from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, D. H. Tanke and K. Carpenter (eds.), Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 243-262

You H.-L., Dodson P. (2003) Redescription of neoceratopsian dinosaur Archaeoceratops and early evolution of Neoceratopsia, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48 2, 261-272

Chinnery B. J., Horner J. R. (2007) A new neoceratopsian dinosaur linking North American and Asian taxa, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 3, 625-641

Butler R. J., Upchurch P., et al (2008) The phylogeny of ornithischian dinosaurs, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6 1, 1-40 doi:10.1017/S1477201907002271

Farke A. A., Maxwell W. D., et al (2014) A ceratopsian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of western North America, and the biogeography of Neoceratopsia, PLoS ONE 9 12, e11205:15-18 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112055

Morschhauser E. M., You H., et al (2019) Phylogenetic history of Auroraceratops rugosus (Ceratopsia: Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Gansu Province, China, Auroraceratops rugosus (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) from the Early Cretaceous of northwestern Gansu Province, China. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 18. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38 supplement, 117-147 doi:10.1080/02724634.2018.1509866

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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