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Ceratosauridae

Synonyms: Ceratosaurus roechlingi; Labrosauridae

Wikipedia Abstract

Ceratosauridae is a family of theropod dinosaurs belonging to the infraorder Ceratosauria. The family's type genus, Ceratosaurus, was first found in Jurassic rocks from North America. Ceratosauridae is made up of the genera Ceratosaurus, found in North America, Tanzania, and Portugal, Genyodectes, from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina, and Fosterovenator which is exclusive to North America. Unnamed probable ceratosaurids are known from limited material in the Middle Jurassic of Madagascar, the Late Jurassic of Switzerland, and the Late Jurassic or possibly Early Cretaceous of Uruguay.
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Genus

Ceratosaurus (1)
Fosterovenator (1)
Genyodectes (1)
Sarcosaurus (1)

(...) = Species count

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0