page_title: Machairoceratops
section_title: Phylogeny
hierarchical_section_title: Machairoceratops / Phylogeny
caption_attribution_description: English: Machairoceratops cronusi
context_page_description: Machairoceratops is an extinct genus of centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Wahweap Formation of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah, United States.
context_section_description: Lund et al. (2016) tested the position of Machairoceratops within Centrosaurinae by performing maximum parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic species level analyses. The maximum parsimony analysis yielded a large polytomy at the base of Centrosaurinae, with only Centrosaurini, most of Pachyrhinosaurini (Einiosaurus, Wendiceratops and Pachyrostra), and a clade formed by Avaceratops and Nasutoceratops being resolved. The Bayesian analysis yielded a fully resolved topology which is shown below.
  The cladogram presented below follows a more recent phylogenetic analysis by Chiba et al. (2017):
caption: Reconstruction
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