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Ornithopsis
Taxonomy
Ornithopsis was named by Seeley (1870). Its type is Ornithopsis eucamerotus. It is the type genus of Ornithopsidae.
It was replaced with Bothriospondylus by Owen (1875); it was synonymized subjectively with Chondrosteosaurus by Sauvage (1880); it was synonymized subjectively with Cetiosaurus by Dollo (1889); it was synonymized subjectively with Pelorosaurus by Lydekker (1889), Huene (1908), Huene (1909), Huene (1927), Huene (1927), Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Steel (1970) and McIntosh (1990); it was synonymized subjectively with Hoplosaurus by Lydekker (1893) and Lydekker (1895); it was synonymized subjectively with Eucamerotus by Apesteguía (2005); it was considered a nomen dubium by Naish and Martill (2001).
It was assigned to Ornithopsidae by Lydekker (1887); to Dinosauria by Mansel-Pleydell (1888); to Cetiosauridae by Depéret (1896); to Sauropoda by Sauvage (1882), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1885), Marsh (1895) and Gadow (1897); to Sauropoda by Gadow (1898) and Gadow (1901); to Atlantosauridae by Hulke (1887), Lydekker (1888), Nopcsa (1901) and Mansel-Pleydell (1902); to Cardiodontidae by Marsh (1896), Marsh (1898), Sauvage (1900) and Sauvage (1906); to Sauropoda by Seeley (1879) and Joleaud (1922); to Morosauridae by Dollo (1884), Zittel (1890), von Zittel (1911) and Lull (1924); to Camarasaurinae by Nopcsa (1928); to Brachiosaurinae by Swinton (1970); to Camarasauridae by Martill (1988); to Brachiosauridae by Swinton (1936), Delair (1960), Blows (1995), Norman (1997), Blows (1998) and Naish and Martill (2007); and to Titanosauriformes by Upchurch et al. (2004), Mannion (2010) and Mannion and Calvo (2011).
It was replaced with Bothriospondylus by Owen (1875); it was synonymized subjectively with Chondrosteosaurus by Sauvage (1880); it was synonymized subjectively with Cetiosaurus by Dollo (1889); it was synonymized subjectively with Pelorosaurus by Lydekker (1889), Huene (1908), Huene (1909), Huene (1927), Huene (1927), Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Steel (1970) and McIntosh (1990); it was synonymized subjectively with Hoplosaurus by Lydekker (1893) and Lydekker (1895); it was synonymized subjectively with Eucamerotus by Apesteguía (2005); it was considered a nomen dubium by Naish and Martill (2001).
It was assigned to Ornithopsidae by Lydekker (1887); to Dinosauria by Mansel-Pleydell (1888); to Cetiosauridae by Depéret (1896); to Sauropoda by Sauvage (1882), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1885), Marsh (1895) and Gadow (1897); to Sauropoda by Gadow (1898) and Gadow (1901); to Atlantosauridae by Hulke (1887), Lydekker (1888), Nopcsa (1901) and Mansel-Pleydell (1902); to Cardiodontidae by Marsh (1896), Marsh (1898), Sauvage (1900) and Sauvage (1906); to Sauropoda by Seeley (1879) and Joleaud (1922); to Morosauridae by Dollo (1884), Zittel (1890), von Zittel (1911) and Lull (1924); to Camarasaurinae by Nopcsa (1928); to Brachiosaurinae by Swinton (1970); to Camarasauridae by Martill (1988); to Brachiosauridae by Swinton (1936), Delair (1960), Blows (1995), Norman (1997), Blows (1998) and Naish and Martill (2007); and to Titanosauriformes by Upchurch et al. (2004), Mannion (2010) and Mannion and Calvo (2011).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1870 | Ornithopsis Seeley p. 279 |
1879 | Ornithopsis Seeley p. 183 |
1882 | Ornithopsis Sauvage p. 35 |
1884 | Ornithopsis Dollo p. 298 |
1884 | Ornithopsis Marsh p. 68 |
1885 | Ornithopsis Marsh p. 764 |
1887 | Ornithopsis Hulke p. 699 |
1887 | Ornithopsis Lydekker p. 160 |
1888 | Ornithopsis Lydekker p. 146 |
1888 | Ornithopsis Mansel-Pleydell p. 38 |
1890 | Ornithopsis Zittel p. 712 |
1895 | Ornithopsis Marsh |
1896 | Ornithopsis Depéret p. 184 |
1896 | Ornithopsis Marsh p. 242 |
1897 | Ornithopsis Gadow p. 204 |
1898 | Ornithopsis Gadow p. 22 |
1898 | Ornithopsis Marsh p. 158 |
1900 | Ornithopsis Sauvage p. 503 |
1901 | Ornithopsis Gadow p. 418 |
1901 | Ornithopsis Nopcsa p. 206 |
1902 | Ornithopsis Mansel-Pleydell p. lxxvii |
1906 | Ornithopsis Sauvage p. 498 |
1911 | Ornithopsis von Zittel p. 287 |
1922 | Ornithopsis Joleaud p. 62 |
1924 | Ornithopsis Lull p. 236 |
1928 | Ornithopsis Nopcsa p. 184 |
1936 | Ornithopsis Swinton p. 209 |
1960 | Ornithopsis Delair p. 81 |
1970 | Ornithopsis Swinton p. 172 |
1988 | Ornithopsis Martill p. 184 |
1995 | Ornithopsis Blows p. 188 |
1997 | Ornithopsis Norman p. 784 |
1998 | Ornithopsis Blows p. 34 |
2004 | Ornithopsis Upchurch et al. p. 266 |
2007 | Ornithopsis Naish and Martill p. 499 |
2010 | Ornithopsis Mannion |
2011 | Ornithopsis Mannion and Calvo |
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G. †Ornithopsis Seeley 1870
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†Ornithopsis hulkei Seeley 1870
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Invalid names: Bothriospondylus magnus Owen 1875 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available