Translingual

Proper noun

Ceratopsia

1. A taxonomic infraorder within the suborder Cerapoda – herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs which thrived during the Cretaceous, in what are now North America and Asia. Early members were small and bipedal, but later forms were large quadrupeds..

Usage notes

It is traditional for ceratopsian genus names to end in "-ceratops", although this is not always the case.

Hypernyms

• (infraorder): Dinosauria - superorder, Ornithischia - order, Cerapoda - suborder

Hyponyms

• (infraorder): Ceratopsidae, Chaoyangsauridae, Psittacosauridae, Neoceratopsia - families; Liaoceratops, Microceratus - genera not placed in families

Related terms

• Triceratops