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Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna

Reptilia - Ceratopsidae

Taxonomy
Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna was named by Loewen et al. (2010). Its type specimen is CPC 276, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ejido Porvenir de Jalpa, which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial mudstone in Mexico. It is the type species of Coahuilaceratops.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2010Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna Loewen et al. pp. 103-104 figs. 7.3-7.7
2011Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna Farke p. 5
2011Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna Maidment and Barrett p. 3
2011Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna Porras-Múzquiz and Lehman p. 265
2013Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna Longrich p. 57
2014Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna Guzmán-Gutiérrez and Rivera-Sylva p. 10
2014Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna Rivera-Sylva and Carpenter p. 171

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Cerapoda
—Marginocephalia
—Ceratopsia()
familyCeratopsidae
subfamilyChasmosaurinae
genusCoahuilaceratops
speciesmagnacuerna

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.

†Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna Loewen et al. 2010
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: gregariouso
Environment: terrestrialsubo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingsubo
Diet: herbivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2005-09-15 11:08:09
Modified: 2005-09-15 13:08:09
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Norman and Weishampel 1991, Marsh 1875

Age range: Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 70.60000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Mexico (Coahuila) Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna (type locality: 97757)