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Heyuannia huangi

Reptilia - Oviraptoridae

Taxonomy

Heyuannia huangi was named by Lü (2003). Its type specimen is HYMV1-1, a set of postcrania, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Huangsha Quarry, which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in the Dalangshan Formation of China.

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
2003	Heyuannia huangi Lü p. 871 figs. 1-4
2004	Heyuannia huangi Lü et al. p. 109 fig. 8
2004	Heyuannia huangi Osmólska et al. p. 167
2005	Heyuannia huangi Lü and Zhang p. 417
2008	Heyuannia huangi Cheng et al. p. 1094
2010	Heyuannia huangi Longrich et al. p. 953 fig. 7
2010	Heyuannia huangi Xu and Han p. 12
2012	Heyuannia huangi Fanti et al. p. 10
2014	Heyuannia huangi Delcourt and Grillo p. 312
2014	Heyuannia huangi Lamanna et al. p. 10 fig. 6
2015	Heyuannia huangi Funston et al. p. 186
2016	Heyuannia huangi Wang et al. p. 2
2017	Heyuannia huangi Wiemann et al. p. 6
2018	Heyuannia huangi Norell et al. p. 10
2019	Heyuannia huangi Simon et al. p. 2
2019	Heyuannia huangi Yun p. 295
2020	Heyuannia huangi Funston p. 136 fig. 20
2020	Heyuannia huangi Funston et al. p. 10

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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
—	Diapsida	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptora
infraorder	Oviraptorosauria
family	Oviraptoridae
subfamily	Heyuanninae
genus	Heyuannia
species	huangi

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.

†Heyuannia huangi Lü 2003

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

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:

intermediateinfrao

Architecture:

compact or denseinfrao

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partsinfrao

Grouping:

solitaryo

Environment:

terrestrialinfrao

Locomotion:

actively mobileinfrao

Life habit:

ground dwellinginfrao

Depth habitat:

surfaceinfrao

Diet:

omnivoreinfrao

Reproduction:

oviparousinfrao

Dispersal:

direct/internalinfrao

Dispersal 2:

mobileinfrao

Created:

2005-03-06 14:07:56

Modified:

2005-03-06 16:07:56

Source: infrao = infraorder, o = order

References: Marsh 1875, Averianov and Yarkov 2004

Age range: Maastrichtian or 72.20000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	China (Guangdong)	Oviraptorosauria indet. (type locality: 55192)