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Taxon: Genus †Protoceratops Granger & Gregory, 1923 (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Ornithischia - (Family) Protoceratopsidae

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Coronosauria (Clade) Sereno 1986 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 62).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

Protoceratopsidae (Clade) Granger & Gregory 1923 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 62).

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

Ceratopsoidea (Clade) Hay 1902 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 62). [implicit]

Subsequent positions

Coronosauria (Microorder) Sereno, 1986 Ref: P. Sereno, 1986: 252.

Current position

Protoceratopsidae (Family) Granger & Gregory, 1923 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997)

Alternative positions

Coronosauria (Microorder) Sereno, 1986 Ref: P. Sereno, 1986: 252. [new position]

Historical positions

Coronosauria (Microorder) Sereno, 1986 Ref: P. Sereno, 1986: 252. [new position]
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