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Coeluridae (coelurid)

Reptilia - Coeluridae

Taxonomy

Coeluridae was named by Marsh (1881). Its type is Coelurus.

It was assigned to Coeluria by Vetter (1884); to Megalosauria by Baur (1891); to Plateosauria by Tornier (1913); to Goniopoda by Matthew and Brown (1922); to Coeluroidae by Hay (1930); to Coelurosauria by Kuhn (1946), Parsch (1963); to Coeluroidea by Tatarinov (1964), Maleev (1968); to Coelurosaurida by Kuhn (1971); to Saurischia by Cope (1889), Arldt (1909), Huene (1909), Madsen and Miller (1979); to Theropoda by Zittel (1890), Van Den Broeck (1900), Nopcsa (1901), Huene (1902), Mansel-Pleydell (1902), Hay (1902), Sauvage (1907), Coulton (1976), McIntosh (1981); to Coelurosauria by Roxo (1937), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Reig (1970), Bonaparte (1978), Bonaparte (1980), Buscalioni and Sanz (1987); to Theropoda by Lydekker (1888), Huene (1908), von Zittel (1911), Swinton (1936), Miller (1955), Galton (1977), Carroll (1988); to Coeluria by Marsh (1881), Sauvage (1882), Dollo (1884), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1885), Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Kuhn (1966), Casamiquela (1975), Paul (1988); to Coelurosauria by Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Matthew (1915), Huene (1920), Nopcsa (1923), Huene (1923), Lull (1924), Huene (1929), Huene (1933), Stromer (1934), Romer (1956), Huene (1959), Lapparent (1960), Estes (1964), Colbert (1964), Colbert and Russell (1969), Swinton (1970), Steel (1970), Barsbold (1976), Raath (1977), Barsbold (1977), Ostrom (1980), Santafé et al. (1982), Dong et al. (1983), Barsbold (1983), Russell (1984), Dong (1992); to Coelurosauria by Rauhut (2003); to Maniraptora by Carpenter et al. (2005); and to Tyrannosauroidea by Senter (2007).

Subtaxa

Coeluridae

Synonyms

Coelurosauridae was named by Cope (1882).

It was reranked as the suborder Coelurosauroidea by Nopcsa (1928); it was reranked as the superfamily Coelurosauroidea by Casamiquela (1964); it was synonymized subjectively with Coeluridae by Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964), Kuhn (1966), Romer (1966), Maleev (1968), Steel (1970), Casamiquela (1975).

It was assigned to Saurischia by Nopcsa (1928); to Coelurosauria by Huene (1948); and to Theropoda by Casamiquela (1964).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1881	Coeluridae Marsh
1882	Coelurosauridae Cope
1882	Coeluridae Sauvage p. 36
1884	Coeluridae Dollo p. 298
1884	Coeluridae Marsh p. 69
1884	Coeluridae Vetter p. 363
1885	Coeluridae Marsh p. 765
1888	Coeluridae Lydekker p. 155
1889	Coeluridae Cope p. 16
1890	Coeluridae Zittel p. 731
1891	Coeluridae Baur p. 450
1895	Coeluridae Marsh
1896	Coeluridae Marsh p. 240
1900	Coeluridae Van Den Broeck p. 83
1901	Coeluridae Nopcsa p. 195
1902	Coeluridae Hay p. 492
1902	Coeluridae Huene
1902	Coeluridae Mansel-Pleydell p. lxxv
1907	Coeluridae Sauvage p. 9
1908	Coeluridae Huene p. 307
1909	Coeluridae Arldt p. 261
1909	Coeluridae Huene p. 13
1911	Coeluridae von Zittel p. 280
1913	Coeluridae Tornier p. 368
1914	Coeluridae Huene p. 37
1915	Coeluridae Matthew p. 32
1920	Coeluridae Huene p. 162
1922	Coeluridae Matthew and Brown p. 381
1923	Coeluridae Huene p. 455 fig. 3
1923	Coeluridae Nopcsa p. 125
1924	Coeluridae Lull p. 231
1928	Coelurosauroidea Nopcsa p. 183
1929	Coeluridae Huene p. 270
1930	Coeluridae Hay p. 184
1933	Coeluridae Huene p. 60
1934	Coeluridae Stromer p. 80
1936	Coeluridae Swinton p. 208
1937	Caeluridae Roxo p. 65
1946	Coeluridae Kuhn p. 65
1948	Coelurosauridae Huene p. 89
1955	Coeluridae Miller, Jr. p. 911
1956	Coeluridae Romer p. 611
1959	Coeluridae Huene p. 121
1960	Coeluridae Lapparent p. 30
1963	Coeluridae Parsch p. 4
1964	Coelurosauroidea Casamiquela p. 126
1964	Coeluridae Colbert p. 21 fig. 6
1964	Coeluridae Estes p. 142
1964	Coeluridae Tatarinov p. 533
1966	Coeluridae Kuhn p. 92
1966	Coeluridae Romer p. 369
1967	Coeluridae Charig p. 714
1968	Coeluridae Maleev p. 95
1969	Coeluridae Colbert and Russell p. 45
1970	Coeluridae Reig p. 279
1970	Coeluridae Steel p. 13
1970	Coeluridae Swinton p. 124
1971	Coeluridae Kuhn p. 15
1975	Coeluridae Casamiquela p. 97
1976	Coeluridae Barsbold p. 74
1976	Coeluridae Coulton p. 177
1977	Coeluridae Barsbold p. 50
1977	Coeluridae Galton p. 230
1977	Coeluridae Raath pp. 207-208
1978	Coeluridae Bonaparte p. 321
1979	Coeluridae Madsen and Miller p. 5
1980	Coeluridae Bonaparte p. 82
1980	Coeluridae Ostrom p. 21
1981	Coeluridae McIntosh p. 10
1982	Coeluridae Santafé et al. p. 81
1983	Coeluridae Barsbold p. 86
1983	Coeluridae Dong et al.
1984	Coeluridae Russell p. 28
1987	Coeluridae Buscalioni and Sanz p. 66
1988	Coeluridae Carroll
1988	Coeluridae Paul p. 300
1992	Coeluridae Dong p. 164
2003	Coeluridae Rauhut p. 149
2005	Coeluridae Carpenter et al. p. 51
2007	Coeluridae Senter p. 437

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
superfamily	Tyrannosauroidea
family	Coeluridae
family	Coeluridae

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. †Coeluridae Marsh 1881 [coelurid]

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Invalid names: Coeluridae Nopcsa 1901 [empty], Coelurosauridae Cope 1882 [synonym]

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
K. A. v. Zittel 1890	Wirbel und alle übrigen Skeletknochen hohl. Vordere Halswirbel opisthocöl, die übrigen amphicöl. Neuralkanal stark erweitert. Halsrippen mit den Centra verschmolzen. Metatarsalia sehr lang und dünn.
B. F. Nopcsa 1901	A femur rövidebb a tibiánál; az összes csontok többé-kevésbbé pneumatikusak. [The femur is shorter than the tibia; all bones are more or less pneumatic.]
R. S. Lull 1924	Dinosaurs of small size, with relatively small skull and long, slender neck; fore limbs relatively large, having specialized manus with long, slim phalanges, except for short, divergent first digit; claws strongly curved; tibia a little longer than femur; foot long and slender, with three functional digits; claws of pes moderately curved.
B. F. Nopcsa 1928 (Coelurosauroidea)	penumatic bones; anterior extremity a grasping organ; hallux reduced; pes only organ of locomotion
F. v. Huene 1948 (Coelurosauridae)	Extremely thin-walled bones; 9 cervicals, 14 dorsals, 5 sacrals; as in preceding families, manus with functioning 3 fingers, second the longest; anterior spine of ilium high, strong crista supra-acetabularis; pubis thin, long, with distal thickening; mt. II-IV long, III not reduced at proximal end. Jurassic.