Centrosaurus

Centrosaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Campanian),
Skull ROM 767 from Dinosaur Provincial Park
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: †Ornithischia
Clade: †Ceratopsia
Family: †Ceratopsidae
Subfamily: †Centrosaurinae
Clade: †Eucentrosaura
Tribe: †Centrosaurini
Genus: †Centrosaurus
Lambe 1904
Species:
†C. apertus
Binomial name
†Centrosaurus apertus
Lambe 1904
Synonyms
  • Monoclonius nasicornus
    Brown, 1917
  • Monoclonius dawsoni
    Lambe, 1902
  • Monoclonius longirostris
    (Sternberg, 1940) Kuhn, 1964
  • Monoclonius cutleri
    Brown, 1917
  • Centrosaurus flexus
    (Brown, 1914) Lambe, 1915
  • Eucentrosaurus apertus
    (Lambe, 1904) Chure & McIntosh, 1989
Not to be confused with Kentrosaurus.

Centrosaurus (/ˌsɛntroʊˈsɔːrəs/ SEN-troh-SOR-əs; lit. 'pointed lizard') is a genus of centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur from Campanian age of Late Cretaceous Canada. Their remains have been found in the Dinosaur Park Formation, dating from 76.5 to 75.5 million years ago.

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