Leptoceratopsidae
Sign in to saveAlso known as Leptoceratopsid, Leptoceratopsids, Leptoceratopidae, Leptoceratopid, Leptoceratopids
Leptoceratopsidae is an extinct family of neoceratopsian dinosaurs from Asia, North America and possibly Europe. Leptoceratopsids resembled, and were closely related to, other neoceratopsians, such as the families Protoceratopsidae and Ceratopsidae, but they were more primitive and generally smaller.
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Leptoceratopsidae Diversity.jpg
Show 8 more facts
- end time
- 66000000-0
- taxon rank
- family
- Commons category
- Ceratopsia
- taxon name
- Leptoceratopsidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Leptoceratopsidae
- taxon common name
- 纖角龍科
- start time
- 83500000-0
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Phylogeny
- Palaeobiogeography
- See also
- References
Leptoceratopsidae is an extinct family of neoceratopsian dinosaurs from Asia, North America and possibly Europe. Leptoceratopsids resembled, and were closely related to, other neoceratopsians, such as the families Protoceratopsidae and Ceratopsidae, but they were more primitive and generally smaller.
== Phylogeny == Leptoceratopsidae was originally named by Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás in 1923 as a subfamily Leptoceratopsinae, and its type species is Leptoceratops gracilis. Leptocertops is derived from Ancient Greek, meaning "slender horned face." Mackovicky, in 2001, defined it as a stem-based taxon and a family consisting of Leptoceratops gracilis and all species closer to Leptoceratops than to Triceratops horridus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leptoceratopsidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.