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Ornithomimipus angustus

Osteichthyes - Ornithomimipodidae

Taxonomy
Ornithomimipus angustus was named by Sternberg (1926). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is NMC 8513, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Rumsey tracksite, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian terrestrial mudstone/sandstone in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Canada.

It was recombined as Ornithomimus angustus by Huene (1927).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1926Ornithomimipus angustus Sternberg p. 87 figs. 4, pl. 18
1927Ornithomimus angustus Huene p. 260
1930Ornithomimipus angustus Hay p. 16
1930Ornithomimipus angustus Russell p. 150
1932Ornithomimipus angustus Sternberg p. 59
1933Ornithomimipus angustus Russell p. 129
1958Ornithomimipus angustus Kuhn p. 28
1963Ornithomimipus angustus Kuhn p. 108
1971Ornithomimipus angustus Haubold p. 75
1971Ornithomimipus angustus Welles p. 38
1974Ornithomimipus angustus Haubold p. 142
1984Ornithomimipus angustus Thulborn and Wade p. 449
1990Ornithomimipus angustus Thulborn p. 164
1993Ornithomimipus angustus Jaillard et al. p. 638
2004Ornithomimipus angustus Gangloff et al. p. 306
2005Ornithomimipus angustus Harington et al. p. 143
2011Ornithomimipus angulatus Lockley et al. p. 324
2015Ornithomimipus angustus Weems and Bachman p. 209

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
familyOrnithomimipodidae
genusOrnithomimipus
speciesangustus

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.

†Ornithomimipus angustus Sternberg 1926
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:39:15
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:39:15
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Marsh 1875, Kiessling 2004, Benton 1983

Age range: base of the Aptian to the top of the Campanian or 121.40000 to 72.20000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian121.4 - 113.2USA (Virginia) Ornithomimipus angustus (69260)
Campanian83.6 - 72.2USA (Colorado) Ornithomimipus angulatus (156034 156036)
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian83.6 - 66.0Canada (Alberta) Ornithomimipus angustus (type locality: 45752)