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Proceratosaurus
Taxonomy
Proceratosaurus was named by Huene (1926). It is the type genus of Proceratosauridae.
It was synonymized subjectively with Megalosaurus by Romer (1956).
It was assigned to Megalosauridae by Romer (1966), Steel (1970); to Ornitholestinae by Paul (1988), Paul (1988); to Ceratosauridae by Huene (1926), Stromer (1934), Tatarinov (1964), Welles (1984), Carroll (1988); to Coelurosauria by Kuhn (1939), Holtz (2000), Holtz et al. (2004); to Coelurosauria by Holtz (1998), Rauhut (2003), Yates (2005), Naish and Martill (2007), Choiniere et al. (2010), Carrano et al. (2012); to Tyrannosauroidea by Li et al. (2009), Lü et al. (2014), Hendrickx and Mateus (2014); and to Proceratosauridae by Rauhut et al. (2010), Carr et al. (2017).
It was synonymized subjectively with Megalosaurus by Romer (1956).
It was assigned to Megalosauridae by Romer (1966), Steel (1970); to Ornitholestinae by Paul (1988), Paul (1988); to Ceratosauridae by Huene (1926), Stromer (1934), Tatarinov (1964), Welles (1984), Carroll (1988); to Coelurosauria by Kuhn (1939), Holtz (2000), Holtz et al. (2004); to Coelurosauria by Holtz (1998), Rauhut (2003), Yates (2005), Naish and Martill (2007), Choiniere et al. (2010), Carrano et al. (2012); to Tyrannosauroidea by Li et al. (2009), Lü et al. (2014), Hendrickx and Mateus (2014); and to Proceratosauridae by Rauhut et al. (2010), Carr et al. (2017).
Species
Entered
by M. Carrano on 2003-01-23; modified by M. Carrano on 2022-02-14
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1926 | Proceratosaurus Huene p. 96 |
| 1934 | Proceratosaurus Stromer p. 80 |
| 1939 | Proceratosaurus Kuhn p. 41 |
| 1964 | Proceratosaurus Tatarinov p. 538 |
| 1966 | Proceratosaurus Romer p. 369 |
| 1970 | Proceratosaurus Steel p. 36 |
| 1984 | Proceratosaurus Welles p. 177 |
| 1988 | Proceratosaurus Carroll |
| 1988 | Proceratosaurus Paul p. 5 fig. 1 |
| 1998 | Proceratosaurus Holtz, Jr. p. 40 |
| 2000 | Proceratosaurus Holtz, Jr. p. 13 fig. 5 |
| 2003 | Proceratosaurus Rauhut p. 149 |
| 2004 | Proceratosaurus Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 76 |
| 2005 | Proceratosaurus Yates p. 118 fig. 9 |
| 2007 | Proceratosaurus Naish and Martill p. 503 |
| 2009 | Proceratosaurus Li et al. |
| 2010 | Proceratosaurus Choiniere et al. p. 1793 |
| 2010 | Proceratosaurus Rauhut et al. p. 183 fig. 23 |
| 2012 | Proceratosaurus Carrano et al. p. 248 fig. 7 |
| 2014 | Proceratosaurus Hendrickx and Mateus |
| 2014 | Proceratosaurus Lü et al. |
| 2017 | Proceratosaurus Carr et al. p. 9s |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
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| O. W. M. Rauhut et al. 2010 | As for the type, and only known, species. |
Measurements
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| References: Marsh 1875, Kiessling 2004, Benton 1983 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Bathonian to the top of the Late/Upper Bathonian or 168.20000 to 165.30000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Bathonian - Late/Upper Bathonian | United Kingdom (England) | Megalosaurus bradleyi (45883) |