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Ornitholestes
Taxonomy
Ornitholestes was named by Osborn (1903). It is the type genus of Ornitholestinae.
It was synonymized subjectively with Coelurus by Hay (1930), Romer (1956), Romer (1966), Swinton (1970), Steel (1970) and Madsen and Miller (1979).
It was assigned to Compsognatha by Osborn (1903); to Podokesauridae by Lull (1915); to Compsognathinae by Nopcsa (1928); to Dromaeosauridae by Welles (1984); to Ornitholestinae by Paul (1988) and Paul (1988); to Coeluridae by Matthew and Brown (1922), Lull (1924), Stromer (1934), Tatarinov (1964), Galton (1977), Russell (1984), Carroll (1988) and Miller et al. (1991); to Arctometatarsalia by Holtz (1994); to Maniraptoriformes by Holtz (1995); to Neotetanurae by Carrano et al. (2002); to Coelurosauria by Kuhn (1939), Gauthier and Padian (1985), Novas (1992), Sereno et al. (1994), Sereno et al. (1996), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Holtz (2000) and Holtz et al. (2004); to Maniraptora by Osmolska (1990), Holtz (1994), Hwang et al. (2004) and Carpenter et al. (2005); to Theropoda by Joleaud (1922) and Chure et al. (2006); to Coelurosauria by Rauhut (2003), Senter et al. (2004), Martínez and Novas (2006), Choiniere et al. (2010), Rauhut et al. (2010) and Carrano et al. (2012); and to Compsognathidae by Huene (1909), von Zittel (1911), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1920), Huene (1926) and Hendrickx and Mateus (2014).
It was synonymized subjectively with Coelurus by Hay (1930), Romer (1956), Romer (1966), Swinton (1970), Steel (1970) and Madsen and Miller (1979).
It was assigned to Compsognatha by Osborn (1903); to Podokesauridae by Lull (1915); to Compsognathinae by Nopcsa (1928); to Dromaeosauridae by Welles (1984); to Ornitholestinae by Paul (1988) and Paul (1988); to Coeluridae by Matthew and Brown (1922), Lull (1924), Stromer (1934), Tatarinov (1964), Galton (1977), Russell (1984), Carroll (1988) and Miller et al. (1991); to Arctometatarsalia by Holtz (1994); to Maniraptoriformes by Holtz (1995); to Neotetanurae by Carrano et al. (2002); to Coelurosauria by Kuhn (1939), Gauthier and Padian (1985), Novas (1992), Sereno et al. (1994), Sereno et al. (1996), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Holtz (2000) and Holtz et al. (2004); to Maniraptora by Osmolska (1990), Holtz (1994), Hwang et al. (2004) and Carpenter et al. (2005); to Theropoda by Joleaud (1922) and Chure et al. (2006); to Coelurosauria by Rauhut (2003), Senter et al. (2004), Martínez and Novas (2006), Choiniere et al. (2010), Rauhut et al. (2010) and Carrano et al. (2012); and to Compsognathidae by Huene (1909), von Zittel (1911), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1920), Huene (1926) and Hendrickx and Mateus (2014).
Species
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1903 | Ornitholestes Osborn |
1909 | Ornitholestes Huene p. 15 |
1911 | Ornitholestes von Zittel p. 283 |
1914 | Ornitholestes Huene p. 34 |
1915 | Ornitholestes Lull p. 155 |
1920 | Ornitholestes Huene p. 162 |
1922 | Ornitholestes Joleaud p. 60 |
1922 | Ornitholestes Matthew and Brown p. 368 |
1924 | Ornitholestes Lull p. 231 |
1926 | Ornitholestes Huene p. 99 |
1928 | Ornitholestes Nopcsa p. 183 |
1934 | Ornitholestes Stromer p. 80 |
1939 | Ornitholestes Kuhn p. 44 |
1964 | Ornitholestes Tatarinov p. 533 |
1977 | Ornitholestes Galton p. 230 |
1984 | Ornitholestes Russell p. 22 |
1984 | Ornitholestes Welles p. 177 |
1985 | Ornitholestes Gauthier and Padian p. 190 |
1988 | Ornitholestes Carroll |
1988 | Ornitholestes Paul p. 5 fig. 1 |
1990 | Ornitholestes Osmolska p. 149 |
1991 | Ornitholestes Miller et al. p. 40 |
1992 | Ornitholestes Novas p. 147 |
1994 | Ornitholestes Holtz |
1994 | Ornitholestes Sereno et al. p. 270 |
1995 | Ornitholestes Holtz, Jr. p. 35A |
1996 | Ornitholestes Sereno et al. p. 989 fig. 4 |
1997 | Ornitholestes Sereno p. 442 fig. 4 |
1998 | Ornitholestes Sereno p. 74 fig. 9 |
1999 | Ornitholestes Sereno p. 2139 fig. 2 |
2000 | Ornitholestes Holtz, Jr. p. 13 fig. 5 |
2002 | Ornitholestes Carrano et al. |
2003 | Ornitholestes Rauhut p. 149 |
2004 | Ornitholestes Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 76 |
2004 | Ornitholestes Hwang et al. p. 28 fig. 12 |
2004 | Ornitholestes Senter et al. p. 17 |
2005 | Ornitholestes Carpenter et al. p. 51 |
2006 | Ornitholestes Chure et al. p. 236 |
2006 | Ornitholestes Martínez and Novas p. 243 |
2010 | Ornitholestes Choiniere et al. p. 1793 |
2010 | Ornitholestes Rauhut et al. pp. 183-184 fig. 23 |
2012 | Ornitholestes Carrano et al. p. 248 fig. 7 |
2014 | Ornitholestes Hendrickx and Mateus |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: g = genus, subo = suborder, o = order | |||||
References: Marsh 1875, Peczkis 1995, Benton 1983 |
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to the top of the Early/Lower Kimmeridgian or 155.70000 to 150.80000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Late/Upper Oxfordian - Early/Lower Kimmeridgian | USA (Wyoming) | O. sp. (126540) | |
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | USA (Wyoming) | O. hermanni (12816 22648) | |
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian | USA (Colorado) | O. sp. (45975) |