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Ceratosaurus

Taxonomy
Ceratosaurus was named by Marsh (1884). It is the type genus of Ceratosauroidea.

It was synonymized subjectively with Megalosaurus by Lydekker (1893).

It was assigned to Coeluridae by von Zittel (1911); to Pachypodosauria by Huene (1914); to Coelurosauria by Huene (1923) and Walker (1964); to Megalosauridae by Baur (1891), Janensch (1920), Matthew and Brown (1922), Piveteau (1923), Romer (1956), Romer (1966), Colbert and Russell (1969), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970), Galton (1977), Dong et al. (1978) and McIntosh (1981); to Ceratosauria by Benton (1990); to Theropoda by Currie (1995); to Ceratosauroidea by Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sampson et al. (1998) and Sereno (1999); to Neoceratosauria by Novas (1991), Novas (1992), Holtz (1994), Pérez-Moreno et al. (1994), Holtz (1995), Holtz (1998), Holtz (2000), Carrano et al. (2002) and Tykoski and Rowe (2004); to Ceratosauridae by Marsh (1884), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1885), Cope (1885), Marsh (1895), Depéret (1896), Marsh (1896), Mansel-Pleydell (1902), Hay (1902), Huene (1909), Gilmore (1920), Huene (1926), Stromer (1934), Russell (1984), Welles (1984), Paul (1988), Carroll (1988), Bonaparte et al. (1990), Bonaparte (1991), Bakker et al. (1992), Knoll et al. (1999), Chure et al. (2006), Mateus et al. (2006) and Soto and Perea (2008); and to Ceratosauria by Gauthier (1986), Rowe (1989), Rowe and Gauthier (1990), Rauhut (2003), Sereno et al. (2004), Yates (2005), Smith (2007), Carrano and Sampson (2008), Ezcurra et al. (2010) and Carrano et al. (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1884Ceratosaurus Marsh p. 69
1885Ceratosaurus Cope p. 68
1885Ceratosaurus Marsh p. 765
1891Ceratosaurus Baur p. 450
1895Ceratosaurus Marsh
1896Ceratosaurus Depéret pp. 184-185
1896Ceratosaurus Marsh p. 240
1902Ceratosaurus Hay p. 493
1902Ceratosaurus Mansel-Pleydell p. lxxviii
1909Ceratosaurus Huene p. 15
1911Ceratosaurus von Zittel p. 281
1914Ceratosaurus Huene p. 157
1920Ceratosaurus Gilmore p. 76
1920Ceratosaurus Janensch p. 230
1922Ceratosaurus Matthew and Brown p. 369
1923Ceratosaurus Huene p. 457
1923Ceratosaurus Piveteau p. 6
1926Ceratosaurus Huene p. 96
1934Ceratosaurus Stromer p. 80
1956Ceratosaurus Romer p. 615
1964Ceratosaurus Walker p. 114
1966Ceratosaurus Romer p. 369
1969Ceratosaurus Colbert and Russell pp. 36-37
1970Ceratosaurus Steel p. 30
1970Ceratosaurus Swinton p. 145
1977Ceratosaurus Galton p. 230
1978Ceratosaurus Dong et al.
1981Ceratosaurus McIntosh p. 8
1984Ceratosaurus Russell p. 22
1984Ceratosaurus Welles p. 177
1986Ceratosaurus Gauthier p. 9
1988Ceratosaurus Carroll
1988Ceratosaurus Paul pp. 275-276
1989Ceratosaurus Rowe
1990Ceratosaurus Benton p. 19
1990Ceratosaurus Bonaparte et al. pp. 35-36
1990Ceratosaurus Rowe and Gauthier p. 152
1991Ceratosaurus Bonaparte p. 22
1991Ceratosaurus Novas p. 401
1992Ceratosaurus Bakker et al. p. 10
1992Ceratosaurus Novas p. 142
1994Ceratosaurus Holtz, Jr.
1994Ceratosaurus Pérez-Moreno et al. p. 184 fig. 1
1995Ceratosaurus Currie p. 25A
1995Ceratosaurus Holtz, Jr. p. 35A
1997Ceratosaurus Sereno p. 455
1998Ceratosaurus Holtz, Jr. p. 39
1998Ceratosaurus Sampson et al. p. 1051
1998Ceratosaurus Sereno p. 73 fig. 8
1999Ceratosaurus Knoll et al. p. 107
1999Ceratosaurus Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2
2000Ceratosaurus Holtz, Jr. p. 16 fig. 5
2002Ceratosaurus Carrano et al.
2003Ceratosaurus Rauhut p. 141
2004Ceratosaurus Sereno et al. p. 1329 fig. 4
2004Ceratosaurus Tykoski and Rowe p. 48
2005Ceratosaurus Yates p. 118 fig. 9
2006Ceratosaurus Chure et al. p. 236
2006Ceratosaurus Mateus et al. p. 123
2007Ceratosaurus Smith p. 104
2008Ceratosaurus Carrano and Sampson pp. 199-200 fig. 4
2008Ceratosaurus Soto and Perea p. 439
2010Ceratosaurus Ezcurra et al. p. 14 fig. 8
2012Ceratosaurus Carrano et al. p. 248 fig. 7

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