Definition of Genus ceratosaurus

1. Noun. Primitive saurischian carnivorous dinosaurs.

Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Suborder Ceratosaura
Member holonyms: Coelophysis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ceratosaurus

genus Cephalanthera
genus Cephalopterus
genus Cephalotaxus
genus Cephalotus
genus Cepphus
genus Cerapteryx
genus Cerastes
genus Cerastium
genus Ceratitis
genus Ceratodus
genus Ceratonia
genus Ceratopetalum
genus Ceratophyllum
genus Ceratopogon
genus Ceratopteris
genus Ceratosaurus
genus Ceratostomella
genus Ceratotherium
genus Ceratozamia
genus Cercidiphyllum
genus Cercidium
genus Cercis
genus Cercocebus
genus Cercopithecus
genus Cercospora
genus Cercosporella
genus Cereus
genus Certhia
genus Cervus
genus Ceryle

Literary usage of Genus ceratosaurus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1889)
"The most perfectly known of American Theropoda, and by far the most interesting, is the genus Ceratosaurus, founded by the author, in 1884. ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1885)
"Genus : Ceratosaurus. The four orders defined above, which the author first established for the reception of the American Jurassic Dinosaurs, ..."

3. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"... dinosaurs were especially ornamented; one genus (Ceratosaurus), however, possessed a horn on the nose, and a row of small bones embedded in the FIG. ..."

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