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Protoceratopsidae
Taxonomy
Protoceratopsidae was named by Granger and Gregory (1923). It was considered monophyletic by Sereno (2000).
It was synonymized subjectively with Leptoceratopsinae by Huene (1934); it was corrected as Protoceratopidae by Tereschenko and Alifanov (2003) and Tereschenko (2007).
It was assigned to Orthopoda by Bohlin (1953); to Ponderopoda by Huene (1948) and Huene (1959); to Ceratopsoidea by Zhao (1983), Norman (1984) and Cooper (1985); to Ceratopsia by Gregory and Mook (1925), Lull (1933), Brown and Schlaikjer (1942), Huene (1950), Romer (1956), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966), Swinton (1970), Thulborn (1971), Maryanska and Osmólska (1975), Rozhdestvensky (1977), Ostrom (1980), McIntosh (1981), Sues and Galton (1982), Russell (1984), Maryanska and Osmólska (1985), Bakker (1986), Carroll (1988) and Nessov (1995); to Protoceratopoidea by Tereschenko (2007); to Neoceratopsia by Dodson and Currie (1990), Dodson (1990), Ryan and Currie (1998), Chinnery and Weishampel (1998), Lambert et al. (2001), Tereschenko and Alifanov (2003), Chinnery (2004) and Ott (2007); and to Coronosauria by Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Sereno (2000), Makovicky (2001), You and Dodson (2003) and Butler et al. (2008).
It was synonymized subjectively with Leptoceratopsinae by Huene (1934); it was corrected as Protoceratopidae by Tereschenko and Alifanov (2003) and Tereschenko (2007).
It was assigned to Orthopoda by Bohlin (1953); to Ponderopoda by Huene (1948) and Huene (1959); to Ceratopsoidea by Zhao (1983), Norman (1984) and Cooper (1985); to Ceratopsia by Gregory and Mook (1925), Lull (1933), Brown and Schlaikjer (1942), Huene (1950), Romer (1956), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966), Swinton (1970), Thulborn (1971), Maryanska and Osmólska (1975), Rozhdestvensky (1977), Ostrom (1980), McIntosh (1981), Sues and Galton (1982), Russell (1984), Maryanska and Osmólska (1985), Bakker (1986), Carroll (1988) and Nessov (1995); to Protoceratopoidea by Tereschenko (2007); to Neoceratopsia by Dodson and Currie (1990), Dodson (1990), Ryan and Currie (1998), Chinnery and Weishampel (1998), Lambert et al. (2001), Tereschenko and Alifanov (2003), Chinnery (2004) and Ott (2007); and to Coronosauria by Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Sereno (2000), Makovicky (2001), You and Dodson (2003) and Butler et al. (2008).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1923 | Protoceratopsidae Granger and Gregory p. 4 |
| 1925 | Protoceratopsidae Gregory and Mook p. 4 |
| 1933 | Protoceratopsidae Lull p. 74 |
| 1942 | Protoceratopsidae Brown and Schlaikjer p. 2 |
| 1948 | Protoceratopsidae Huene p. 95 |
| 1950 | Protoceratopsidae Huene p. 351 |
| 1953 | Protoceratopsidae Bohlin p. 13 |
| 1956 | Protoceratopsidae Romer p. 637 |
| 1959 | Protoceratopsidae Huene p. 122 |
| 1964 | Protoceratopsidae Kuhn p. 52 |
| 1966 | Protoceratopsidae Romer p. 370 |
| 1970 | Protoceratopsidae Swinton p. 254 |
| 1971 | Protoceratopsidae Thulborn pp. 77-78 fig. 4 |
| 1975 | Protoceratopsidae Maryanska and Osmólska p. 137 |
| 1977 | Protoceratopsidae Rozhdestvensky p. 114 |
| 1980 | Protoceratopsidae Ostrom p. 23 |
| 1981 | Protoceratopsidae McIntosh p. 40 |
| 1982 | Protoceratopsidae Sues and Galton p. 189 |
| 1983 | Protoceratopsidae Zhao p. 300 |
| 1984 | Protoceratopsidae Norman p. 160 fig. 2 |
| 1984 | Protoceratopsidae Russell p. 29 |
| 1985 | Protoceratopsidae Cooper p. 292 |
| 1985 | Protoceratopsidae Maryanska and Osmólska pp. 143-144 fig. 1 |
| 1986 | Protoceratopsidae Bakker p. 461 |
| 1988 | Protoceratopsidae Carroll |
| 1990 | Protoceratopsidae Dodson p. 578 |
| 1990 | Protoceratopsidae Dodson and Currie p. 611 |
| 1995 | Protoceratopsidae Nessov p. 52 |
| 1997 | Protoceratopsidae Sereno p. 443 |
| 1998 | Protoceratopsidae Chinnery and Weishampel p. 578 fig. 10 |
| 1998 | Protoceratopsidae Ryan and Currie p. 821 |
| 1998 | Protoceratopsidae Sereno p. 62 |
| 1999 | Protoceratopsidae Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2 |
| 2000 | Protoceratopsidae Sereno p. 482 |
| 2001 | Protoceratopsidae Lambert et al. p. 7 |
| 2001 | Protoceratopsidae Makovicky p. 254 fig. 18.3 |
| 2003 | Protoceratopidae Tereschenko and Alifanov p. 293 |
| 2003 | Protoceratopsidae You and Dodson |
| 2004 | Protoceratopsidae Chinnery pp. 584-585 fig. 9 |
| 2007 | Protoceratopsidae Ott p. 214 |
| 2007 | Protoceratopidae Tereschenko p. 175 |
| 2008 | Protoceratopsidae Butler et al. p. 8 |
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