Principal characters of American Jurassic dinosaurs; Part VIII, The order Theropoda

Citation

Marsh, O. C. (1884). Principal characters of American Jurassic dinosaurs; Part VIII, The order Theropoda. American Journal of Science 27(160): 329-340. American Journal of Science. doi:10.2475/ajs.s3-27.160.329

Names first published here

• Ceratosaurus genus
• Ceratosaurus nasicornis species
• Ceratosauridae clade

Cited by genera

• Ceratosaurus

  Erects Ceratosaurus nasicornis and the family Ceratosauridae on a near-complete skeleton (now USNM 4735) from the Morrison Formation of Garden Park, Colorado.

• Coelurus

  Named Coelurus agilis (YPM 2010), later synonymized with Coelurus fragilis.

Cited by clades

• Ceratosauria

  Named Ceratosaurus nasicornis and the family Ceratosauridae on a skeleton from the Atlantosaurus beds of the Upper Jurassic of Colorado.

• Ceratosauridae

  Named the family Ceratosauridae for Ceratosaurus.