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Elmisaurus
Taxonomy
Elmisaurus was named by Osmolska (1981). It was considered monophyletic by Currie (2000).
It was synonymized subjectively with Chirostenotes by Paul (1988).
It was assigned to Oviraptoridae by Russell and Dong (1994); to Elmisauridae by Osmolska (1981), Gauthier (1986), Carroll (1988), Currie (1989), Currie (1992) and Varricchio (2001); to Oviraptorosauria by Osmólska et al. (2004) and Balanoff et al. (2009); to Elmisaurinae by Currie (2000) and Funston et al. (2016); to Caenagnathidae by Currie and Russell (1988), Rauhut (2003), Lü and Zhang (2005), Longrich et al. (2013), Lamanna et al. (2014), Lü et al. (2015), Yao et al. (2015), Funston and Currie (2016) and Funston et al. (2018); and to Caenagnathinae by Funston (2020).
It was synonymized subjectively with Chirostenotes by Paul (1988).
It was assigned to Oviraptoridae by Russell and Dong (1994); to Elmisauridae by Osmolska (1981), Gauthier (1986), Carroll (1988), Currie (1989), Currie (1992) and Varricchio (2001); to Oviraptorosauria by Osmólska et al. (2004) and Balanoff et al. (2009); to Elmisaurinae by Currie (2000) and Funston et al. (2016); to Caenagnathidae by Currie and Russell (1988), Rauhut (2003), Lü and Zhang (2005), Longrich et al. (2013), Lamanna et al. (2014), Lü et al. (2015), Yao et al. (2015), Funston and Currie (2016) and Funston et al. (2018); and to Caenagnathinae by Funston (2020).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1981 | Elmisaurus Osmolska p. 80 |
1986 | Elmisaurus Gauthier p. 9 |
1988 | Elmisaurus Carroll |
1988 | Elmisaurus Currie and Russell p. 985 |
1989 | Elmisaurus Currie |
1992 | Elmisaurus Currie p. 246 |
1994 | Elmisaurus Russell and Dong p. 2125 |
2000 | Nomingia Barsbold et al. |
2000 | Elmisaurus Currie p. 437 |
2001 | Elmisaurus Varricchio p. 48 |
2002 | Nomingia Maryanska et al. p. 101 fig. 1 |
2003 | Nomingia Currie p. 57 |
2003 | Elmisaurus Rauhut p. 40 |
2003 | Nomingia Rauhut p. 40 |
2004 | Nomingia Lü et al. p. 112 fig. 8 |
2004 | Nomingia Osmólska et al. p. 166 |
2004 | Elmisaurus Osmólska et al. p. 167 |
2005 | Elmisaurus Lü and Zhang p. 417 |
2005 | Nomingia Lü and Zhang p. 417 |
2009 | Elmisaurus Balanoff et al. p. 2 |
2010 | Nomingia Zanno p. 212 |
2011 | Nomingia Sullivan et al. p. 428 |
2013 | Nomingia Longrich et al. p. 36 |
2013 | Elmisaurus Longrich et al. p. 41 fig. 14 |
2014 | Elmisaurus Lamanna et al. p. 10 fig. 6 |
2014 | Nomingia Lamanna et al. p. 10 fig. 6 |
2015 | Elmisaurus Lü et al. |
2015 | Nomingia Lü et al. |
2015 | Elmisaurus Yao et al. p. 291 |
2016 | Elmisaurus Funston and Currie p. 14 |
2017 | Nomingia Tsuihiji et al. p. 10 |
2018 | Elmisaurus Funston et al. p. 107 |
2018 | Nomingia Funston et al. p. 114 |
2020 | Elmisaurus Funston p. 136 fig. 20 |
2020 | Nomingia Funston p. 136 fig. 20 |
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G. †Elmisaurus Osmolska 1981
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†Elmisaurus rarus Osmolska 1981
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Invalid names: Nomingia gobiensis Barsbold et al. 2000 [synonym]
Invalid names: Nomingia Barsbold et al. 2000 [synonym]
Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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H. Osmolska 1981 | Manus Chirostenotes-like with metacarpal I more than half the length of metacarpal II; two distal tarsals 3 and 4 coossified with each other and with metatarsus. Tarsal 4 with an upward process at lateral margin; cross-section of metatarsus semilunal. Metatarsals II, III and IV fused proximally. |
Measurements
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References: Averianov and Yarkov 2004, Marsh 1875 |
Age range: Maastrichtian or 72.10000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Maastrichtian | Mongolia (Omnogov) | Coeluroidea indet. (180698) E. rarus, Nomingia gobiensis, Nomingia mongoliensis (55257) |