Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Ceratopsia › Ceratopsidae
Centrosaurus
Centrosaurus apertus (Lambe 1905)
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 83.6–72.2 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Centrosaurus apertus is a ceratopsian dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–72.2 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by (Lambe 1905). The species is represented by 42 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~81%
confidence from occurrence count
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 42 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Centrosaurus sits in deep time
Centrosaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Centrosaurus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.