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Deinocheirus mirificus
Taxonomy
Deinocheirus mirificus was named by Kielan-Jaworowska (1969) [nomen nudum in this paper.]. Its type specimen is ZPal MgD-I/6 (MPC-D 100/018), a set of limb elements, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Altan Ula III, site 2 [PMPE], which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial sandstone in the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. It was considered monophyletic by Currie (2000).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1969 | Deinocheirus mirificus Kielan-Jaworowska p. 37 figs. 1-4 |
| 1970 | Deinocheirus mirificus Osmólska and Roniewicz p. 5 figs. 1-4 |
| 1972 | Deinocheirus mirificus Osmólska et al. p. 138 |
| 1977 | Deinocheirus mirificus Rozhdestvensky p. 111 |
| 1980 | Deinocheirus mirificus Molnar p. 134 fig. 3 |
| 1981 | Deinocheirus miriphicus Olshevsky p. 41 |
| 1982 | Deinocheirus mirificus Galton pp. 272-273 |
| 1983 | Deinocheirus mirificus Barsbold p. 100 |
| 1984 | Deinocheirus mirificus Kielan-Jaworowska p. 101 |
| 1986 | Deinocheirus mirificus Gauthier p. 10 |
| 1988 | Deinocheirus mirificus Paul p. 384 |
| 1992 | Deinocheirus mirificus Currie p. 246 |
| 1997 | Deinocheirus mirificus Barsbold p. 448 |
| 1997 | Deinocheirus mirificus Osmólska p. 472 |
| 1998 | Deinocheirus mirificus Holtz, Jr. p. 40 |
| 2000 | Deinocheirus mirificus Currie pp. 449-450 |
| 2003 | Deinocheirus mirificus Rauhut p. 38 |
| 2004 | Deinocheirus mirificus Makovicky et al. p. 138 |
| 2006 | Deinocheirus mirificus Kobayashi and Barsbold p. 202 |
| 2007 | Deinocheirus mirificus Li et al. p. 545 |
| 2011 | Deinocheirus mirificus Bronowicz p. 477 |
| 2012 | Deinocheirus mirificus Bell et al. p. 186 |
| 2014 | Deinocheirus mirificus Lee et al. p. 257 |
| 2015 | Deinocheirus mirificus Alifanov and Saveliev p. 636 |
| 2015 | Deinocheirus mirificus Peecook and Sidor p. 8 |
| 2016 | Deinocheirus mirificus Claessens and Loewen p. 11 fig. 10 |
| 2016 | Deinocheirus mirificus McFeeters et al. p. 17 fig. 14 |
| 2017 | Deinocheirus mirificus Averianov et al. p. 199 |
| 2017 | Deinocheirus mirificus Chinzorig et al. p. 5 |
| 2018 | Deinocheirus mirificus Cau and Madzia p. 1 |
| 2018 | Deinocheirus mirificus Hunt and Quinn p. 7 fig. 6 |
| 2019 | Deinocheirus mirificus Senter and Sullivan p. 2 |
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†Deinocheirus mirificus Kielan-Jaworowska 1969
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| H. Osmólska and E. Roniewicz 1970 | Scapula long and slender; coracoid large; fore limbs long, slender; humerus straight, twisted, with a pronounced, triangular deltopectoralis crest; length of humerus equal to about three fourths that of scapula; radius slightly longer than half humeral length ; manus only slightly shorter than humerus, with three equally developed digits terminated in ciaws; metacarpus comparatively long; digits long. |
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, infrao = infraorder | |||||
| References: Peczkis 1995, Averianov and Yarkov 2004 | |||||
Age range: Maastrichtian or 72.10000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maastrichtian | Mongolia (Omnogov) | Megalosauridae indet. (type locality: 38695) Ornithomimidae indet. (55257 127674) |