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Pelecanimimus

Reptilia

Taxonomy

Pelecanimimus was named by Pérez-Moreno et al. (1994). It is not extant. It is the type genus of Pelecanimimidae.

It was assigned to Ornithomimidae by Sereno (1998), Ji et al. (2003) and Sereno et al. (2008); to Ornithomimosauria by Pérez-Moreno et al. (1994), Pérez-Moreno and Sanz (1995), Norell and Makovicky (1997), Holtz (2000), Barco and Ruiz-Omeñaca (2001), Rauhut (2003), Kobayashi and Barsbold (2003), Senter et al. (2004), Makovicky et al. (2004), Kobayashi and Barsbold (2005), Kobayashi and Barsbold (2006), Longrich (2008), Ezcurra (2009), Buffetaut et al. (2009), Makovicky et al. (2010), Lü et al. (2010) and Xu et al. (2011); to Pelecanimimidae by Alifanov and Saveliev (2015); and to Ornithomimosauria by Pérez-Moreno and Sanz (1997), Osmólska (1997), Buffetaut (1997), Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo (2003), Gianechini et al. (2011), Lee et al. (2014), Sanz et al. (2014), Torices et al. (2015), McFeeters et al. (2016), Claessens and Loewen (2016) and Hattori et al. (2023).

Species

P. polyodon

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1994	Pelecanimimus Pérez-Moreno et al. p. 364 fig. 3
1995	Pelecanimimus Pérez-Moreno and Sanz p. 115
1997	Pelecanimimus Buffetaut p. 215
1997	Pelecanimimus Norell and Makovicky p. 19
1997	Pelecanimimus Osmólska p. 502
1997	Pelecanimimus Pérez-Moreno and Sanz p. 399
1998	Pelecanimimus Sereno p. 74 fig. 9
2000	Pelecanimimus Holtz, Jr. p. 13 fig. 5
2001	Pelecanimimus Barco and Ruiz-Omeñaca p. 243
2003	Pelecanimimus Ji et al. pp. 16-17 fig. 12
2003	Pelecanimimus Kobayashi and Barsbold p. 68A
2003	Pelecanimimus Rauhut p. 38
2003	Pelecanimimus Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo p. 289
2004	Pelecanimimus Makovicky et al. p. 138
2004	Pelecanimimus Senter et al. p. 2 fig. 2
2005	Pelecanimimus Kobayashi and Barsbold p. 119 fig. 6.11
2006	Pelecanimimus Kobayashi and Barsbold p. 203
2008	Pelecanimimus Longrich p. 994
2008	Pelecanimimus Sereno et al. p. 15
2009	Pelecanimimus Buffetaut et al. p. 238
2009	Pelecanimimus Ezcurra p. 1341
2010	Pelecanimimus Lü et al. p. 385
2010	Pelecanimimus Makovicky et al.
2011	Pelecanimimus Gianechini et al. p. 283
2011	Pelecanimimus Xu et al. p. 220 fig. 9
2014	Pelecanimimus Lee et al. p. 259
2014	Pelecanimimus Sanz et al. p. 70
2015	Pelecanimimus Alifanov and Saveliev p. 639 fig. 1
2015	Pelecanimimus Torices et al. p. 615
2016	Pelecanimimus Claessens and Loewen p. 1
2016	Pelecanimimus McFeeters et al. p. 17 fig. 14
2023	Pelecanimimus Hattori et al. p. 12 fig. 9

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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	()
—	Romeriida

Rank	Name	Author
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptoriformes
—	Arctometatarsalia
infraorder	Ornithomimosauria
genus	Pelecanimimus

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. †Pelecanimimus Pérez-Moreno et al. 1994

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†Pelecanimimus polyodon Pérez-Moreno et al. 1994

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
B. P. Pérez-Moreno and J. L. Sanz 1997	The most important traits that place Pelecanimimus inside Ornithomimosauria are related to the forelimb skeleton, especially the derived condition of the hand for such an ancient ornithomimosaur.

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteinfrao

Entire body:

yesinfrao

Adult length:

1.0 to < 10infrao

Adult width:

0.1 to < 1.0infrao

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10infrao

Thickness:

thickinfrao

Architecture:

compact or denseinfrao

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partsinfrao

Grouping:

gregariousinfrao

Environment:

terrestrialinfrao

Locomotion:

actively mobileinfrao

Life habit:

ground dwellinginfrao

Diet:

herbivoreinfrao

Diet 2:

omnivoreinfrao

Reproduction:

oviparousinfrao

Dispersal:

direct/internalinfrao

Dispersal 2:

mobileinfrao

Created:

2005-03-06 14:09:12

Modified:

2005-09-11 19:09:33

Source: infrao = infraorder

Reference: Averianov and Yarkov 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Barremian or 130.00000 to 125.45000 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Barremian	130.0 - 125.45	Spain (Castilla-La Mancha)	P. polyodon (28006)