Centrosaurinae

Centrosaurinae is a subfamily of ceratopsid, a group of large quadrupedal ornithischian dinosaur. Centrosaurine fossil remains are known primarily from the northern region of Laramidia but isolated taxa have been found in China and Utah as well.

Centrosaurinae

Schlaier · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CeratopsidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ceratopsia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Ceratopsia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ceratopsia

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 144 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 144 of 144 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 144 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 5 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 14 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 14 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 14 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 14 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 14 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 14 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 14 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 14 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 14 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 5 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

144 occurrences of Centrosaurinae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

144 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

22 formations

Dinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.53°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.48°WDinosaur Park — 50.73°N, 111.80°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.76°N, 111.43°WDinosaur Park — 50.79°N, 111.61°WDinosaur Park — 48.03°N, 110.24°WDinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.23°WDinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.32°WDinosaur Park — 50.51°N, 110.39°WOldman — 50.73°N, 111.80°WOldman — 50.75°N, 111.52°WOldman — 49.29°N, 112.21°WOldman — 49.36°N, 110.58°WOldman — 50.76°N, 111.39°WOldman — 50.73°N, 110.06°WOldman — 49.12°N, 110.86°WOldman — 50.87°N, 111.16°WOldman — 50.60°N, 111.62°WOldman — 50.69°N, 111.62°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.23°N, 110.69°WTwo Medicine — 48.97°N, 112.65°WTwo Medicine — 48.63°N, 113.75°WTwo Medicine — 48.94°N, 112.64°WTwo Medicine — 48.97°N, 112.64°WJudith River — 46.46°N, 109.41°WJudith River — 47.77°N, 108.95°WJudith River — 47.74°N, 109.62°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.11°WJudith River — 47.28°N, 108.21°WJudith River — 47.58°N, 109.41°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.55°N, 112.87°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.41°N, 112.63°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.55°N, 112.88°WWahweap — 37.18°N, 111.35°WWahweap — 37.19°N, 111.65°WWahweap — 37.45°N, 111.53°WWahweap — 37.38°N, 111.52°WWahweap — 37.56°N, 111.71°WWapiti — 55.06°N, 119.11°WWapiti — 55.07°N, 119.55°WWapiti — 55.02°N, 119.43°WWapiti — 54.98°N, 119.56°WSt. Mary River — 49.92°N, 112.99°WSt. Mary River — 50.19°N, 113.01°WMenefee — 35.70°N, 107.20°WKirtland — 36.27°N, 108.17°WKirtland — 36.70°N, 108.30°WAguja — 28.94°N, 103.37°WAguja — 28.83°N, 103.30°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.70°N, 101.40°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.50°N, 101.40°WFort Crittenden — 31.70°N, 110.85°WPrince Creek — 69.83°N, 151.52°WPrince Creek — 70.01°N, 151.54°WKaiparowits — 37.53°N, 111.76°WKaiparowits — 37.47°N, 111.70°WSummit Creek — 64.56°N, 125.83°WFruitland — 36.62°N, 108.46°WMilk River — 49.08°N, 111.44°WHongtuya — 37.47°N, 120.98°EForemost — 49.51°N, 111.36°WCokedale — 45.64°N, 110.70°WAguja — 29.25°N, 103.25°W

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The named rock units Centrosaurinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Centrosaurinae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Centrosaurinae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

252 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 135 sites for Centrosaurinae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

72 references

Each of the 144 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 60 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Centrosaurinae

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Schlaier
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CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
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Structured light scan

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not stated by the source
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Specimen
Centrosaurinae indet. · RSKM:RSKM P3217.572

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lambe 1915