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Microvenator celer

Reptilia - Caenagnathidae

Taxonomy

Microvenator celer was named by Ostrom (1970). Its type specimen is AMNH 3041, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is AMNH 33-1, Middle Dome, which is in an Albian/Cenomanian terrestrial claystone in the Cloverly Formation of Montana. It is the type species of Microvenator.

Year	Name and author
1970	Microvenator celer Ostrom p. 71 figs. Pl. 11L-N, 12A-P, 13A-E
1974	Microvenator celer Langston p. 85
1980	Microvenator celer Molnar and Pledge p. 283
1980	Microvenator celer Sues p. 52
1988	Microvenator celer Currie and Russell p. 985
1988	Microvenator celer Paul p. 372
1997	Microvenator celer Mackovicky and Sues p. 62A
1997	Microvenator celer Maxwell p. 128
1997	Microvenator celer Norell and Makovicky p. 13
1997	Microvenator celer Sues p. 699
1998	Microvenator celer Makovicky and Sues p. 2
2000	Microvenator celer Zelenitsky et al. p. 137
2003	Microvenator celer Rauhut p. 30
2004	Microvenator celer Lü et al. p. 109 fig. 8
2004	Microvenator celer Osmólska et al. p. 167
2004	Microvenator celer Senter et al. p. 5
2007	Microvenator celer Turner et al. p. 20
2009	Microvenator celer Balanoff et al. p. 2
2009	Microvenator celer Parsons and Parsons pp. 721-722
2011	Microvenator celer Sullivan et al. pp. 421-422
2013	Microvenator celer Longrich et al. p. 37
2014	Microvenator celer Delcourt and Grillo p. 312
2014	Microvenator celer Lamanna et al. p. 10 fig. 6
2015	Microvenator celer Funston et al. p. 182
2015	Microvenator celer Sues and Averianov p. 58
2015	Microvenator celer Tsuihiji et al. p. 61
2016	Microvenator celer Funston and Currie p. 14
2016	Microvenator celer Wang et al. p. 13
2017	Microvenator celer Pu et al. p. 6
2020	Microvenator celer Funston p. 112

part	N	mean
femur circumference	1	35.0
tibia circumference	1	33.0

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Aptian - Albian	125.0 - 100.5	USA (Wyoming)	Microvenator celer (137566)
Middle Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian	109.0 - 93.5	USA (Montana)	Microvenator celer (type locality: 47346)
Middle Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian	109.0 - 93.5	USA (Wyoming)	Microvenator celer (50498)