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Ceratosaurus nasicornis

Taxonomy
Ceratosaurus nasicornis was named by Marsh (1884). Its type specimen is USNM 4735, a skeleton, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Felch Quarry 1, Garden Park (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian channel sandstone/claystone in the Morrison Formation of Colorado.

It was recombined as Megalosaurus nasicornis by Cope (1892).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1884Ceratosaurus nasicornis Marsh p. 330
1885Ceratosaurus nasicornis Woodward p. 12
1892Megalosaurus nasicornis Cope pp. 241-245
1896Ceratosaurus nasicornis Marsh p. 157
1902Ceratosaurus nasicornis Hay p. 494
1902Ceratosaurus nascomis Mansel-Pleydell p. lxxviii
1903Ceratosaurus nasicornis Lambe p. 134
1904Ceratosaurus nasicornis Lambe p. 5
1911Ceratosaurus nasicornis von Zittel p. 281
1915Ceratosaurus nasicornis Nopcsa p. 388
1915Ceratosaurus nasicornis Stromer p. 7
1920Ceratosaurus nasicornis Gilmore pp. 76-77
1970Ceratosaurus nasicornis Steel p. 30
1970Ceratosaurus nasicornis Swinton p. 139
1974Ceratosaurus nasicornis Molnar p. 1012
1980Ceratosaurus nasicornis Molnar and Pledge p. 285 fig. 3
1984Ceratosaurus nasicornis Jensen p. 375
1984Ceratosaurus nasicornis Welles pp. 156-158
1986Ceratosaurus nasicornis Gauthier p. 9
1988Ceratosaurus nasicornis Paul pp. 275-276
1989Ceratosaurus nasicornis Rowe p. 125
1991Ceratosaurus nasicornis Bonaparte p. 18
1991Ceratosaurus nasicornis Molnar p. 165
1992Ceratosaurus nasicornis Bakker et al. p. 9 fig. 3D
1996Ceratosaurus nasicornis Richmond and Stadtman p. 117
2000Ceratosaurus nasicornis Foster and Chure p. 8 fig. 3
2000Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus Madsen, Jr. and Welles
2000Ceratosaurus magnicornis Madsen, Jr. and Welles
2003Ceratosaurus nasicornis Rauhut p. 24
2003Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus Yates p. 320
2004Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus Tykoski and Rowe p. 49
2004Ceratosaurus magnicornis Tykoski and Rowe p. 49
2004Ceratosaurus nasicornis Tykoski and Rowe p. 49
2005Ceratosaurus nasicornis Yates p. 105
2005Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus Yates p. 109
2005Ceratosaurus magnicornis Yates p. 114
2006Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus Chure et al. p. 236
2006Ceratosaurus magnicornis Chure et al. p. 236
2006Ceratosaurus nasicornis Chure et al. p. 236
2006Ceratosaurus magnicornis Langer and Benton p. 320 fig. 5
2006Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus Mateus p. 226
2006Ceratosaurus magnicornis Mateus p. 226
2006Ceratosaurus nasicornis Mateus p. 226
2006Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus Mateus et al. pp. 123-124
2006Ceratosaurus magnicornis Mateus et al. p. 124
2006Ceratosaurus nasicornis Mateus et al. p. 124
2007Ceratosaurus nasicornis Sampson and Witmer p. 33
2007Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus Smith p. 104
2008Ceratosaurus nasicornis Carrano and Sampson p. 192
2008Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus Soto and Perea p. 441
2008Ceratosaurus magnicornis Soto and Perea p. 441
2008Ceratosaurus nasicornis Soto and Perea p. 441
2010Ceratosaurus nasicornis Rauhut et al. p. 156

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