Ceratopsia
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Translingual [edit]
Etymology [edit]
New Latin, from Ancient Greek (“horned faces”). One of the first named genera was Ceratops itself, which lent its name to the group, although it is considered a nomen dubium today as it has no distinguishing characteristics that are not also found in other ceratopsians.
Proper noun [edit]
Ceratopsia
- A taxonomic infraorder within the suborder Cerapoda — herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs which thrived during the Cretaceous, in what are now North America and Asia. Early members were small and bipedal, but later forms were large quadrupeds..
Usage notes [edit]
It is traditional for ceratopsian genus names to end in "-ceratops", although this is not always the case.
Hypernyms [edit]
- (infraorder): Dinosauria - superorder
Hyponyms [edit]
- (infraorder): Ceratopsidae, Chaoyangsauridae, Psittacosauridae, Neoceratopsia - families; Liaoceratops, Microceratus - genera not placed in families
