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Talarurus

Reptilia - Ankylosauridae

Taxonomy

Talarurus was named by Maleev (1952). Its type is Talarurus plicatospineus. It was considered monophyletic by Vickaryous et al. (2004).

It was assigned to Thyreophora by Huene (1958); to Nodosaurinae by Huene (1959); to Nodosauridae by Tatarinov (1964), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966), Bonaparte (1978); to Syrmosaurinae by Ford (2000); to Ankylosauridae by Maleev (1952), Maleev (1953), Maleev (1956), Swinton (1970), Rozhdestvensky (1977), Maryanska (1977), Coombs (1978), Coombs (1978), Sereno (1986), Coombs (1986), Carroll (1988), Barsbold (1997), Tumanova (2000), Carpenter (2001), Barrett (2001), Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola (2003), Lü et al. (2007), Parsons and Parsons (2009), Arbour et al. (2014), Arbour et al. (2014); to Ankylosaurini by Arbour and Currie (2016); and to Ankylosaurinae by Tumanova (1987), Vickaryous et al. (2001), Vickaryous et al. (2004), Han et al. (2014), Yang et al. (2017).

Species

T. plicatospineus (type species)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1952	Talarurus Maleev p. 273 figs. 1-3
1953	Talarurus Maleev pp. 111-112
1956	Talarurus Maleev p. 54
1958	Talarurus Huene p. 206
1959	Talarurus Huene p. 122
1964	Talarurus Kuhn p. 52
1964	Talarurus Tatarinov p. 575
1966	Talarurus Romer p. 370
1970	Talarurus Swinton p. 248
1977	Talarurus Maryanska pp. 98-100
1977	Talarurus Rozhdestvensky p. 113
1978	Talarurus Bonaparte p. 466
1978	Talarurus Coombs p. 144
1986	Talarurus Coombs, Jr. p. 162
1986	Talarurus Sereno
1987	Talarurus Tumanova p. 17
1988	Talarurus Carroll
1997	Talarurus Barsbold p. 450
2000	Talarurus Ford p. 176
2000	Talarurus Tumanova p. 520
2001	Talarurus Barrett p. 41
2001	Talarurus Carpenter p. 457
2001	Talarurus Vickaryous et al. p. 1774
2003	Talarurus Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola p. 161
2004	Talarurus Vickaryous et al. p. 364
2007	Talarurus Lü et al. p. 889 fig. 1
2009	Talarurus Parsons and Parsons p. 736 fig. 18
2014	Talarurus Arbour et al. p. 11 fig. 6
2014	Talarurus Arbour et al. p. 648
2014	Talarurus Han et al. p. 14 fig. 11
2016	Talarurus Arbour and Currie p. 421
2017	Talarurus Yang et al. p. 786 fig. 5

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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	()
—	Ornithischia	()
—	Genasauria
—	Thyreophora	()
—	Ankylosauria	()
family	Ankylosauridae
subfamily	Ankylosaurinae	Nopcsa 1918
genus	Talarurus

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.

G. †Talarurus Maleev 1952

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†Talarurus plicatospineus Maleev 1952

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
E. A. Maleev 1956	Large quadruped dinosaurs with heavy armor. The cranium is not large, of trapezoidal shape. On the top of the cranium there are many covering bones. The cervical vertebrae are short and high. The dorsal vertebrae are long, centra are high; articular surfaces are flattened. Lumbar ribs (4-5) are firmly joined by the lateral processes of the vertebrae. The scapula is twice as long as the humerus. The articular cavity is large, of circular shape, extended cranio-caudally. The humerus is somewhat longer than the tibia, and double the length of the radius. The ratio of the humerus to the femur is 3:2.
T. A. Tumanova 1987	Distinct pyramidal scutes distributed above and behind orbits; skull roof covered with small tubercular osteoderms; occipital plane perpendicular to skull roof; paroccipital processes inclined somewhat posterolaterally; occipital condyle narrow oval, posterolaterally inclined; quadrate not attached to paroccipital processes; basioccipital with medial protuberance, depressions on sides of protuberance; floor of skull cavity straight; fenestra ovalis not fused with jugular foramen.

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteo

Entire body:

yesg

Adult length:

10 to < 100o

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10o

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10o

Maximum body mass:

1000 kgg

Minimum body mass:

300 kgg

Architecture:

compact or denseo

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partso

Grouping:

gregariouso

Environment:

terrestrialo

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

ground dwellingo

Diet:

herbivoreo

Reproduction:

oviparouso

Dispersal:

direct/internalo

Dispersal 2:

mobileo

Created:

2005-08-25 06:06:12

Modified:

2005-08-25 08:06:12

Source: g = genus, o = order

References: Marsh 1875, Peczkis 1995

Age range: base of the Cenomanian to the top of the Santonian or 100.50000 to 83.60000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Cenomanian - Santonian	100.5 - 83.6	Mongolia (Dornogov)	T. plicatospineus (79702)
Cenomanian - Santonian	100.5 - 83.6	Mongolia (Omnogov)	T. plicatospineus (51975)