Ceratosauria
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Ceratosaurs are members of the clade Ceratosauria, a group of dinosaurs defined as all theropods sharing a more recent common ancestor with Ceratosaurus than with birds. The oldest known ceratosaur, S
An illustration of the skeleton of Ceratosaurus by O.C. Marsh
An early life reconstruction of Ceratosaurus
The holotype of Limusaurus, one of the most well-known ceratosaurs
One of the earliest ceratosaurs, Saltriovenator, in its environment
Ceratosaurus
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Ceratosaurus is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic period in North America and Europe. The genus was first described in 1884 by American paleontologist Othnie
Ceratosauria
…Ceratosaurs are members of the clade Ceratosauria, a group of dinosaurs defined as all theropods sharing a more recent common ancestor with Ceratosaurus than with birds. The oldest known ceratosaur, Saltriovenator, dates to the earliest part of the Jurassic, around 199 million years ago. Ceratosauria…
Ceratosaurus mount utah museum 1
Probably the first life restoration of Ceratosaurus, drawn in 1899 by Frank Bond under the guidance of Charles R. Knight, but not published until 1920
Holotype cast as currently mounted as if fighting with Stegosaurus at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History