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Talarurus plicatospineus

Reptilia - Ankylosauridae

Taxonomy

Talarurus plicatospineus was named by Maleev (1952). Its type specimen is PIN 557, a partial skull (partial skull and postcranial skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bayn Shire (PIN coll. 557) [MPE], which is in a Cenomanian/Santonian fluvial claystone in the Baynshire Formation of Mongolia. It is the type species of Talarurus. It was considered monophyletic by Vickaryous et al. (2004).

Year	Name and author
1952	Talarurus plicatospineus Maleev p. 273
1953	Talarurus plicatospineus Maleev pp. 111-112
1956	Talarurus plicatospineus Maleev p. 56 figs. 1-32
1960	Talarurus plicatospineus Jeletzky p. 35
1964	Talarurus plicatospineus Kuhn p. 52
1964	Talarurus plicatospinaeus Tatarinov p. 575
1970	Talarurus plicatospineus Swinton p. 248
1974	Talarurus plicatospineus Rozhdestvensky p. 147
1977	Talarurus plicatospineus Maryanska pp. 99-100
1977	Talarurus plicatospineus Rozhdestvensky p. 113
1978	Talarurus plicatospineus Kurzanov and Tumanova p. 369
1987	Talarurus plicatospineus Tumanova p. 17
1993	Talarurus plicatospineus Currie and Eberth p. 138
1997	Talarurus plicatospineus Barsbold p. 450
1997	Talarurus plicatospineous Coy p. 692
2000	Talarurus plicatospineus Ford p. 176
2000	Talarurus plicatospineus Shuvalov p. 268
2000	Talarurus plicatospineus Tumanova pp. 520-521
2001	Talarurus plicatospineus Carpenter p. 457
2003	Talarurus plicatospineus Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola p. 161
2004	Talarurus plicatospineus Vickaryous et al. p. 364
2007	Talarurus plicatospineus Arbour p. 41A
2007	Talarurus plicatospineus Lü et al. p. 887
2011	Talarurus plicatospineus Carpenter et al. p. 6
2013	Talarurus plicatospineus Arbour and Currie p. 27
2013	Talarurus plicatospineus Kirkland et al. p. 7
2014	Talarurus plicatospineus Arbour et al. p. 11 fig. 6
2014	Talarurus plicatospineus Arbour et al. p. 634
2014	Talarurus plicatospineus Han et al. p. 12
2016	Talarurus plicatospineus Arbour and Currie p. 421–422

Reference	Diagnosis
T. A. Tumanova 1987	Osteoderms of skull roof overhangs medial region of the occiput; premaxillary covered with osteoderms.
V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie 2016	Uniquely amongst ankylosaurs, has V-shaped upraised area on frontals. Uniquely amongst all other ankylosaurids except Nodocephalosaurus, has conical frontonasal caputegulae with circular bases.

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