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Coelurus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Coelurus was named by Marsh (1879). It is the type genus of Coeluridae, Coeluroidea, Coeluroidae, Coeluridae.

It was synonymized subjectively with Ornitholestes by Matthew and Brown (1922).

It was assigned to Dinosauria by Marsh (1879); to Goniopoda by Cope (1887) and Cope (1887); to Coeluria by Marsh (1884) and Marsh (1895); to Coeluridae by Nopcsa (1901); to Theropoda by Gadow (1898) and Gadow (1901); to Compsognathidae by Lull (1911); to Compsognathinae by Nopcsa (1928); to Maniraptora by Osmolska (1990); to Coelurosauria by Kuhn (1939), Gauthier and Padian (1985), Holtz (2000) and Holtz et al. (2004); to Theropoda by Gadow (1897), Joleaud (1922) and Chure et al. (2006); to Coeluridae by Marsh (1881), Sauvage (1882), Marsh (1882), Vetter (1884), Dollo (1884), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1885), Lydekker (1888), Zittel (1890), Baur (1891), Lydekker (1891), Marsh (1896), Van Den Broeck (1900), Hay (1902), Williston (1905), Huene (1909), Lull (1911), von Zittel (1911), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1920), Gilmore (1920), Lull (1924), Hay (1930), Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Swinton (1970), Steel (1970), Russell (1972), Galton (1977), Madsen and Miller (1979), Russell (1984), Welles (1984), Paul (1988), Carroll (1988), Miller et al. (1991), Rauhut (2003), Carpenter et al. (2005) and Martínez and Novas (2006); and to Coelurosauria by Barco and Ruiz-Omeñaca (2001), Choiniere et al. (2010) and Rauhut et al. (2010).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Coelurus Marsh
1881Coelurus Marsh
1882Coelurus Marsh
1882Coelurus Sauvage p. 36
1884Coelurus Dollo p. 298
1884Coelurus Marsh p. 69
1884Coelurus Vetter p. 363
1885Coelurus Marsh p. 765
1887Coelurus Cope
1888Coelurus Lydekker p. 155
1888Coelurus gracilis Marsh p. 94
1890Coelurus Zittel p. 731
1890Coelurus gracilis Zittel p. 732
1891Coelurus Baur p. 450
1891Coelurus Lydekker p. 43
1895Coelurus Marsh
1896Coelurus Marsh p. 240
1897Coelurus Gadow p. 204
1898Coelurus Gadow p. 22
1900Coelurus Van Den Broeck p. 83
1901Coelurus Gadow p. 423
1901Coelurus gracilis Gadow p. 423
1901Coelurus Nopcsa p. 202
1902Coelurus Hay p. 493
1902Coelurus gracilis Hay p. 493
1905Coelurus Williston p. 345
1909Coelurus Huene p. 13
1911Coelurus gracilis Lull p. 174
1911Coelurus Lull p. 177
1911Coelurus gracilis Lull p. 187 figs. Pl. 15:1
1911Coelurus von Zittel p. 280
1914Coelurus Huene p. 34
1916Coelurus gracilis Mook p. 143
1920Coelurus Gilmore p. 126
1920Coelurus gracilis Gilmore p. 126
1920Coelurus Huene p. 162
1921Coelurus gracilis Gilmore p. 585
1922Caelurus Joleaud p. 59
1922Dromaeosaurus gracilis Matthew and Brown p. 377
1924Chirostenotes gracilis Gilmore p. 3
1924Coelurus Lull p. 231
1928Coelurus Nopcsa p. 183
1930Dromaeosaurus gracilis Hay p. 181
1930Coelurus Hay p. 185
1939Coelurus Kuhn p. 40
1939Coelurus gracilis Kuhn p. 41
1956Coelurus Romer p. 612
1964Coelurus Tatarinov p. 533
1966Coelurus Romer p. 369
1970Coelurus Steel p. 15
1970Coelurus gracilis Steel p. 15
1970Coelurus Swinton pp. 125-127
1970Coelurus gracilis Swinton p. 127
1972Coelurus Russell p. 378
1977Coelurus Galton p. 230
1979Coelurus Madsen and Miller p. 5
1980Coelurus gracilis Molnar and Pledge p. 283
1984Coelurus Russell p. 22
1984Coelurus Welles p. 177
1985Coelurus Gauthier and Padian p. 190
1988Coelurus Carroll
1988Coelurus Paul p. 300
1989Coelurus gracilis Kranz p. 18
1990Coelurus Osmolska p. 149
1991Coelurus Miller et al. p. 40
2000Coelurus Holtz, Jr. p. 13 fig. 5
2001Coelurus Barco and Ruiz-Omeñaca p. 251
2003Coelurus Rauhut p. 151
2004Coelurus Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 76
2005Coelurus Carpenter et al. p. 51
2006Coelurus Chure et al. p. 236
2006Coelurus Martínez and Novas p. 256
2007Chirostenotes gracilis Turner et al. p. 20
2010Coelurus Choiniere et al. p. 1793
2010Coelurus Rauhut et al. pp. 183-184 fig. 23

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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
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
genusCoelurus

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. †Coelurus Marsh 1879
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†Coelurus fragilis Marsh 1879
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Invalid names: Coelurus agilis Marsh 1884 [objective synonym]
Invalid names: Coelurus gracilis Marsh 1888 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available