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Stenonychosaurus
Taxonomy
Stenonychosaurus was named by Sternberg (1932).
It was synonymized subjectively with Saurornithoides by Carpenter (1982); it was synonymized subjectively with Troodon by Gauthier (1986), Currie (1987), Paul (1988), Currie et al. (1990), Nessov (1995), Varricchio (1997), Rauhut (2003), Makovicky and Norell (2004) and Currie (2005).
It was assigned to Coelurosauria by Kuhn (1939); to Theropoda by Parsch (1963), Tatarinov (1964) and Romer (1966); to Theropoda by Romer (1956) and Steel (1970); to Dromaeosauridae by Ostrom (1969) and Kurzanov (1976); to Troodontidae by Russell (1969) and Coulton (1976); to Coeluridae by Sternberg (1932), McIntosh (1981) and Dodson (1983); to Saurornithoididae by Sues (1977), Sues (1978), Molnar (1980), Thulborn (1984), Russell (1984), Currie (1985), Clemens (1986), Barsbold (1988) and Carroll (1988); and to Troodontinae by van der Reest and Currie (2017).
It was synonymized subjectively with Saurornithoides by Carpenter (1982); it was synonymized subjectively with Troodon by Gauthier (1986), Currie (1987), Paul (1988), Currie et al. (1990), Nessov (1995), Varricchio (1997), Rauhut (2003), Makovicky and Norell (2004) and Currie (2005).
It was assigned to Coelurosauria by Kuhn (1939); to Theropoda by Parsch (1963), Tatarinov (1964) and Romer (1966); to Theropoda by Romer (1956) and Steel (1970); to Dromaeosauridae by Ostrom (1969) and Kurzanov (1976); to Troodontidae by Russell (1969) and Coulton (1976); to Coeluridae by Sternberg (1932), McIntosh (1981) and Dodson (1983); to Saurornithoididae by Sues (1977), Sues (1978), Molnar (1980), Thulborn (1984), Russell (1984), Currie (1985), Clemens (1986), Barsbold (1988) and Carroll (1988); and to Troodontinae by van der Reest and Currie (2017).
Species
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1932 | Stenonychosaurus Sternberg pp. 102-103 figs. pl. 2-3 |
1939 | Stenonychosaurus Kuhn p. 51 |
1956 | Stenonychosaurus Romer p. 618 |
1963 | Stenonychosaurus Parsch p. 6 |
1964 | Stenonychosaurus Tatarinov p. 540 |
1966 | Stenonychosaurus Romer p. 370 |
1969 | Stenonychosaurus Ostrom p. 148 |
1969 | Stenonychosaurus Russell |
1970 | Stenonychosaurus Steel p. 44 |
1976 | Stenonychosaurus Coulton p. 177 |
1976 | Stenonychosaurus Kurzanov p. 361 |
1977 | Stenonychosaurus Sues p. 591 |
1978 | Stenonychosaurus Sues p. 399 |
1980 | Stenonychosaurus Molnar p. 138 |
1981 | Stenonychosaurus McIntosh p. 10 |
1983 | Stenonychosaurus Dodson p. 95 |
1984 | Stenonychosaurus Russell p. 24 |
1984 | Stenonychosaurus Thulborn p. 132 |
1985 | Stenonychosaurus Currie p. 1643 |
1986 | Stenonychosaurus Clemens p. 79 |
1988 | Stenonychosaurus Barsbold p. 19 |
1988 | Stenonychosaurus Carroll |
2017 | Stenonychosaurus van der Reest and Currie p. 930–931 |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: f = family, o = order | |||||
References: Holtz et al. 2000, Marsh 1875 |
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 83.50000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (14 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Late/Upper Campanian | Canada (Alberta) | S. inequalis (45753 59115 59131) Troodon formosus (46951) | |
Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian | Canada (Alberta) | S. inequalis (179240 179241 179242 179243 179244 179245 179246 217170) | |
Lancian | USA (Wyoming) | Saurornithoides inequalis (14519) | |
Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Montana) | S. inequalis (142326) |