Definition of Ceratopsians. Meaning of Ceratopsians. Synonyms of Ceratopsians

- distinguishing characteristics that are not also found in other ceratopsians. Early members of the ceratopsian group, such as Psittacosaurus, were small bipedal animals...
- illustrating the origins of ceratopsians in general, suggesting an Asian origin in the Jur****ic and the appearance of truly horned ceratopsians by the beginning...
- study of Norman placed ceratopsians between Hypsilophodon and more derived ornithopods, the study of Sereno placed ceratopsians with ankylosaurs and stegosaurs...
- the same size-range as other members of the Centrosaurinae subgroup of ceratopsians that lived during the Campanian age. It was about as large as its close...
- This timeline of ceratopsian research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the ceratopsians, a group of herbivorous...
- animals with mating signals as prominent as the horns and frills of ceratopsians tend to form these kinds of large, intricate ****ociations. Sampson found...
- dental batteries, suggesting that the animal sliced up plants. Like other ceratopsians, this dinosaur may have been a herd animal, travelling in large groups...
- was probably not directly ancestral to any other groups of ceratopsians. All other ceratopsians retained the fifth digit of the hand, a plesiomorphy or primitive...
- ceratopsians with small frills and stubby horns) †Ceratopsoidea (large-horned ceratopsians) †Ceratopsidae (large, elaborately ornamented ceratopsians)...
- predator, preying upon hadrosaurs, juvenile armored herbivores like ceratopsians and ankylosaurs, and possibly sauropods. Some experts have suggested...