Ceratosaurs Temporal range: Late Triassic - Late Cretaceous,
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Infraorder: | Marsh, 1884
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Ceratosauria is a group of primitive theropods.
Phylogeny
editBy Gauthier[1]
______Ceratosauria _____Liliensternus ___Procompsognathus __TETANURAE
M.Fabbri et al.[2]
_________Herrerasaurus ______________Tawa ________________Megapnosaurus | |Cryolophosaurus _______ |Dilophosaurus ____________________Ceratosaurus | |_____________________Masiakasaurus | | | |Limusaurus | |Deltadromeus | |_________________Rugops | |__________|Abelisaurus |Rajasaurus |Carnotaurus |Majungasaurus
Holtz et al.[3]
__________|Coelophysidae |Dilophosauridae |___Elaphrosauridae |_Ceratosaurus |__Carnotaurus |__Abelisaurus
Distribution of some ceratosaurs through time.
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