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Microvenator celer
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.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 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 |
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†Microvenator celer Ostrom 1970
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| femur circumference | 1 | 35.0 | |||||
| tibia circumference | 1 | 33.0 |
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| Source: g = genus, infrao = infraorder, o = order | |||||
| References: Marsh 1875, Averianov and Yarkov 2004, Peczkis 1995 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Albian to the top of the Albian or 109.00000 to 100.50000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Aptian - Albian | USA (Wyoming) | Microvenator celer (137566) | |
| Middle Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian | USA (Montana) | Microvenator celer (type locality: 47346) | |
| Middle Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian | USA (Wyoming) | Microvenator celer (50498) |