Chasmosaurinae

Chasmosaurines Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 78–66 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Chasmosaurus belli skeleton, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	†Ornithischia
Clade:	†Neornithischia
Clade:	†Ceratopsia
Family:	†Ceratopsidae
Subfamily:	†Chasmosaurinae Lambe, 1915
Type species
†Chasmosaurus belli Lambe, 1902
Subgroups
†Agujaceratops †Anchiceratops †Arrhinoceratops †Bisticeratops †Bravoceratops †Chasmosaurus †Coahuilaceratops †Judiceratops †Kosmoceratops †Mercuriceratops †Navajoceratops †Pentaceratops †Sierraceratops †Spiclypeus †Terminocavus †Titanoceratops? †Utahceratops †Vagaceratops †Triceratopsini Marsh, 1889 †Titanoceratops? †Tatankaceratops †Nedoceratops †Eotriceratops †Ojoceratops †Regaliceratops †Torosaurus †Triceratops
Synonyms
Ceratopsinae? Marsh, 1888 sensu Abel, 1919 Eoceratopsinae Lambe, 1915

Chasmosaurinae is a subfamily of ceratopsid dinosaurs. They were one of the most successful groups of herbivores of their time. Chasmosaurines appeared in the early Campanian, and became extinct, along with all other non-avian dinosaurs, during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. Broadly, the most distinguishing features of chasmosaurines are prominent brow horns and long frills lacking long spines; centrosaurines generally had short brow horns and relatively shorter frills, and often had long spines projecting from their frills.^{[citation needed]}

Chasmosaurines evolved in western North America (Laramidia). They are currently known definitively from rocks in western Canada, the western United States, and northern Mexico. They were highly diverse and among the most species-rich groups of dinosaurs, with new species frequently described. This high diversity of named species is likely a result of the frill. The distinctive shape of the frill with the hornlets on its edges (epoccipitals) make it possible to recognize species from incomplete or fragmentary remains.^{[citation needed]}