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Microvenator
Taxonomy
Microvenator was named by Ostrom (1970). It is not extant. Its type is Microvenator celer.
It was assigned to Coelurosauria by Zhao (1983); to Coeluridae by Ostrom (1970), Molnar (1980) and Carroll (1988); to Caenagnathinae by Paul (1988); to Oviraptoridae by Russell and Dong (1994); to Maniraptora by Osmolska (1990), Holtz (1996), Holtz (2000) and Rauhut (2003); to Oviraptorosauria by Currie and Russell (1985), Mackovicky and Sues (1997), Makovicky and Sues (1998), Osmólska et al. (2004), Senter et al. (2004), Lü et al. (2004) and Balanoff et al. (2009); to Caenagnathoidea by Tsuihiji et al. (2017); and to Caenagnathidae by Russell (1984), Lü and Zhang (2005), Sullivan et al. (2011), Longrich et al. (2013), Lamanna et al. (2014), Lü et al. (2015), Tsuihiji et al. (2015), Funston and Currie (2016) and Funston (2020).
It was assigned to Coelurosauria by Zhao (1983); to Coeluridae by Ostrom (1970), Molnar (1980) and Carroll (1988); to Caenagnathinae by Paul (1988); to Oviraptoridae by Russell and Dong (1994); to Maniraptora by Osmolska (1990), Holtz (1996), Holtz (2000) and Rauhut (2003); to Oviraptorosauria by Currie and Russell (1985), Mackovicky and Sues (1997), Makovicky and Sues (1998), Osmólska et al. (2004), Senter et al. (2004), Lü et al. (2004) and Balanoff et al. (2009); to Caenagnathoidea by Tsuihiji et al. (2017); and to Caenagnathidae by Russell (1984), Lü and Zhang (2005), Sullivan et al. (2011), Longrich et al. (2013), Lamanna et al. (2014), Lü et al. (2015), Tsuihiji et al. (2015), Funston and Currie (2016) and Funston (2020).
Species
M. celer (type species), M. chagyabi
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1970 | Microvenator Ostrom p. 71 figs. Pl. 11L-N, 12A-P, 13A-E |
| 1980 | Microvenator Molnar p. 137 |
| 1983 | Microvenator Zhao p. 304 |
| 1984 | Microvenator Russell p. 23 |
| 1985 | Microvenator Currie and Russell p. 25 |
| 1988 | Microvenator Carroll |
| 1988 | Microvenator Paul p. 372 |
| 1990 | Microvenator Osmolska p. 149 |
| 1994 | Microvenator Russell and Dong p. 2123 |
| 1996 | Microvenator Holtz, Jr. p. 42A |
| 1997 | Microvenator Mackovicky and Sues p. 62A |
| 1998 | Microvenator Makovicky and Sues p. 15 fig. 15 |
| 2000 | Microvenator Holtz, Jr. p. 13 fig. 5 |
| 2003 | Microvenator Rauhut p. 156 |
| 2004 | Microvenator Lü et al. p. 112 fig. 8 |
| 2004 | Microvenator Osmólska et al. p. 167 |
| 2004 | Microvenator Senter et al. p. 5 |
| 2005 | Microvenator Lü and Zhang p. 417 |
| 2009 | Microvenator Balanoff et al. p. 2 |
| 2011 | Microvenator Sullivan et al. p. 422 |
| 2013 | Microvenator Longrich et al. p. 37 |
| 2014 | Microvenator Lamanna et al. p. 10 fig. 6 |
| 2015 | Microvenator Lü et al. |
| 2015 | Microvenator Tsuihiji et al. p. 61 |
| 2016 | Microvenator Funston and Currie p. 14 |
| 2017 | Microvenator Tsuihiji et al. p. 10 |
| 2020 | Microvenator Funston p. 136 fig. 20 |
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G. †Microvenator Ostrom 1970
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†Microvenator celer Ostrom 1970
†Microvenator chagyabi Zhao 1986
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available