- Sereno ( 1999 ) used the name " Chaoyangsaurus " in an overview of ceratopsian taxonomy.
- "Chaoyangsaurus " is recovered in a more basal position than Psittacosauridae, although Chinnery's original analysis finds it within Neoceratopsia.
- These skeletons share a number of distinct features with a potential close relative, " Chaoyangsaurus ", discovered in the adjacent province of Liaoning, with the exception of several cranial formations.
- In contrast to the previous analysis, You and Dodson find " Chaoyangsaurus " to be the most basal neoceratopsian, more derived than " Psittacosaurus ", while Leptoceratopsidae, not Protoceratopsidae, is recovered as the sister group of Ceratopsidae.
- Under this definition, the most basal known ceratopsians are " Yinlong ", from the Late Jurassic Period, along with " Chaoyangsaurus " and the family Psittacosauridae, from the Early Cretaceous Period, all of which were discovered in northern China or Mongolia.
- However, in December of that year, Cheng, Zhao, and Xu published an official description using the name " Chaoyangsaurus youngi ", and as the first name for this genus that is not a " nomen nudum ", it has official priority over all other spellings that have been used.
- ""'Chaoyangsaurus " "'( " Greek for " horned faces " ), a group of primarily herbivorous dinosaurs with parrot-like beaks which thrived in North America and Asia during the Cretaceous Period ( which ended 66 million years ago ) . " Chaoyangsaurus ", like all ceratopsians, was primarily a herbivore.
- ""'Chaoyangsaurus " "'( " Greek for " horned faces " ), a group of primarily herbivorous dinosaurs with parrot-like beaks which thrived in North America and Asia during the Cretaceous Period ( which ended 66 million years ago ) . " Chaoyangsaurus ", like all ceratopsians, was primarily a herbivore.