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Heyuannia yanshini

Reptilia - Oviraptoridae

Taxonomy
Ingenia yanshini was named by Barsbold (1981). Its type specimen is PST GIN AN MNP 100/30, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Khermeen Tsav, Red Beds (PIN coll. 3142) [SMPE], which is in a Campanian/Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia. It was considered monophyletic by Currie (2000).

It was recombined as Oviraptor yanshini by Paul (1988); it was recombined as Ajancingenia yanshini by Easter (2013), Wang et al. (2016) and Norell et al. (2018); it was recombined as Heyuannia yanshini by Funston et al. (2018), Yun (2019), Lee et al. (2019), Funston (2020) and Funston et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1981Ingenia yanshini Barsbold p. 35
1983Ingenia yanshini Barsbold p. 93
1988Oviraptor yanshini Paul p. 378
1992Ingenia yanshini Currie p. 246
1992Ingenia yanshini Le Loeuff et al. p. 338
1996Ingenia yanshini Osmólska p. 33
1997Ingenia yanshini Norell and Makovicky p. 3
1997Ingenia yanshini Osmólska p. 41
2000Ingenia yanshini Currie p. 438
2001Ingenia yanshinii Norell et al. p. 13
2002Ingenia yanshini Maryanska et al. p. 101 fig. 1
2003Ingenia yanshini Rauhut p. 40
2004Ingenia yanshini Lü et al. p. 109 fig. 8
2004Ingenia yanshini Osmólska et al. p. 167
2005Ingenia yanshini Lü and Zhang p. 417
2007Ingenia yanshini Juárez Valieri et al. p. 61
2007Ingenia yanshani Turner et al. p. 17
2010Ingenia yanshini Longrich et al. p. 953 fig. 7
2010Ingenia yanshini Xu and Han p. 12
2012Ingenia yanshini Fanti et al. p. 1
2013Ajancingenia yanshini Easter
2014Ingenia yanshini Lamanna et al. p. 10 fig. 6
2015Ingenia yanshini Funston et al. p. 186
2016Ingenia yanshini Funston and Currie p. 10
2016Ajancingenia yanshini Wang et al. p. 8
2018Heyuannia yanshini Funston et al. p. 109–110
2018Ajancingenia yanshini Norell et al. p. 13
2019Heyuannia yanshini Lee et al. p. 2
2019Heyuannia yanshini Yun p. 295
2020Heyuannia yanshini Funston p. 136 fig. 20
2021Heyuannia yanshini Funston et al. p. 7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Theropoda()
Neotheropoda
AverostraPaul 2002
Tetanurae
Coelurosauria()
Maniraptora
infraorderOviraptorosauria
familyOviraptoridae
subfamilyHeyuanninae
genusHeyuannia
speciesyanshini()

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 yanshini Barsbold 1981
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
G. F. Funston et al. 2018Small oviraptorid oviraptorosaur diagnosed by the following features: low ridge on medial side of surangular*; angular contributing to retroarticular process; fused axis intercentrum; relatively large epipophyses on anterior cervical vertebrae; accessory foramen anteroventral to lateral pleurocoel of posterior cervical vertebrae; eight sacral vertebrae* (shared with Ne. barsboldi); 30 caudal vertebrae with hatchet- shaped transverse processes; chevrons with distal bulb*; unfused scapulocoracoid with unexpanded posterior blade, laterally-facing glenoid, and small biceps tubercle; humerus with large deltopectoral crest oc- cupying nearly half of humeral length and large ectepicondyle; ulna with large lateral distal process*; metacarpal I short (two-thirds length of metacarpus) and broad; metacarpal II and III subequal in length; ungual I-2 longer than metacarpal I*; fibula contacting calcaneum; metatarsal I spade-shaped; metatarsal II longer than metatarsal IV.