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Ornithomimus

Reptilia - Ornithomimidae

Taxonomy
Ornithomimus was named by Marsh (1890). It is the type genus of Ornithomiminae.

It was assigned to Ornithopoda by Gadow (1897); to Megalosauridae by Nopcsa (1901); to Ornithopoda by Winkler (1893), Gadow (1898) and Gadow (1901); to Compsognathidae by Huene (1909), von Zittel (1911) and Huene (1914); to Coeluridae by Huene (1914); to Coeluria by Huene (1914); to Coelurosauria by Kuhn (1939) and Huene (1958); to Theropoda by Joleaud (1922) and Ostrom (1965); to Coelurosauridae by Osmólska and Roniewicz (1970); to Ornithomimosauria by Osmólska (1997); to Ornithomiminae by Nopcsa (1928), Paul (1988), Sereno (1998) and Ji et al. (2003); and to Ornithomimidae by Zittel (1890), Cannon (1890), Marsh (1890), Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Lambe (1902), Hay (1902), Lambe (1905), Brown (1914), Huene (1920), Gilmore (1920), Matthew and Brown (1922), Huene (1923), Lull (1924), Huene (1926), Huene (1927), Hay (1930), Russell (1930), Gilmore (1933), Huene (1934), Stromer (1934), Huene (1934), Romer (1956), Parsch (1963), Tatarinov (1964), Estes (1964), Romer (1966), Miller (1967), Russell and Chamney (1967), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970), Osmólska et al. (1972), Russell (1972), Coulton (1976), Baird and Horner (1979), Molnar (1980), Barsbold (1981), McIntosh (1981), Nicholls and Russell (1981), Barsbold (1983), Zhao (1983), Dodson (1983), Thulborn (1984), Russell (1984), Breithaupt (1985), DeCourten and Russell (1985), Clemens (1986), Baird (1986), Gauthier (1986), Currie (1987), Carroll (1988), Currie (1992), Chatterjee (1993), Ryan (1997), Eberth (1997), Barco and Ruiz-Omeñaca (2001), Eberth et al. (2001), Rauhut (2003), Kobayashi and Barsbold (2003), Makovicky et al. (2004), Kobayashi and Barsbold (2005), Kobayashi and Barsbold (2006), Longrich (2008), Buffetaut et al. (2009), Xu et al. (2011), Lee et al. (2014), Alifanov and Saveliev (2015), McFeeters et al. (2016), Claessens and Loewen (2016) and Hattori et al. (2023).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Ornithomimus Cannon p. 253
1890Ornithomimus Marsh pp. 84-85 figs. 1-4
1890Ornithomimus Zittel p. 767
1892Ornithomimus sedens Marsh
1893Ornithomimus Winkler p. 111
1893Ornithomimus sedens Winkler p. 111
1895Ornithomimus Marsh
1896Ornithomimus sedens Marsh p. 205 figs. 49-52
1896Ornithomimus Marsh p. 240
1897Ornithomimus Gadow p. 205
1898Ornithomimus Gadow p. 23
1901Ornithomimus Gadow p. 429
1901Ornithomimus Nopcsa p. 201
1901Ornithomimus sedens Nopcsa p. 201
1902Ornithomimus Hay p. 494
1902Ornithomimus sedens Hay p. 494
1902Ornithomimus Lambe p. 50
1904Ornithomimus sedens Lambe p. 33
1905Ornithomimus Lambe p. 48
1909Ornithomimus Huene p. 15
1911Ornithomimus von Zittel p. 283
1914Ornithomimus Brown p. 377
1914Ornithomimus Huene p. 146
1920Ornithomimus Gilmore p. 129
1920Ornithomimus sedens Gilmore p. 131 fig. 35
1920Ornithomimus Huene p. 162
1922Ornithomimus Joleaud p. 60
1922Ornithomimus Matthew and Brown p. 373
1922Ornithomimus sedens Matthew and Brown p. 377
1923Ornithomimus Huene pp. 455-456 fig. 3
1924Ornithomimus Lull p. 232
1926Ornithomimus Huene p. 100
1927Ornithomimus Huene p. 260
1927Ornithomimus sedens Huene p. 260
1928Ornithomimus Nopcsa p. 183
1930Ornithomimus Hay p. 182
1930Ornithomimus sedens Hay p. 183
1930Ornithomimus Russell p. 140
1930Ornithomimus sedens Russell p. 140
1933Ornithomimus Gilmore p. 26
1933Ornithomimus sedens Gilmore p. 28
1934Ornithomimus Huene p. 19
1934Ornithomimus Stromer p. 80
1935Ornithomimus sedens Lowe p. 418
1939Ornithomimus Kuhn p. 51
1939Ornithomimus sedens Kuhn p. 53
1956Ornithomimus Romer p. 613
1958Ornithomimus Huene p. 205
1963Ornithomimus Parsch p. 6
1964Ornithomimus Estes p. 143
1964Ornithomimus Tatarinov p. 533
1965Ornithomimus Ostrom p. 39
1965Ornithomimus sedens Ostrom p. 39
1966Ornithomimus Romer p. 369
1967Ornithomimus Miller p. 232
1967Ornithomimus Russell and Chamney p. 10
1970Ornithomimus Osmólska and Roniewicz p. 18
1970Ornithomimus Steel p. 19
1970Ornithomimus sedens Steel p. 19
1970Ornithomimus Swinton p. 131
1970Ornithomimus sedens Swinton p. 131
1972Ornithomimus Osmólska et al. p. 104
1972Ornithomimus sedens Osmólska et al. p. 137
1972Ornithomimus sedens Russell p. 376
1972Ornithomimus Russell p. 379
1976Ornithomimus Coulton p. 177
1979Ornithomimus Baird and Horner p. 9
1980Ornithomimus Molnar p. 137
1981Ornithomimus Barsbold
1981Ornithomimus McIntosh p. 11
1981Ornithomimus Nicholls and Russell p. 518
1983Ornithomimus Barsbold p. 97
1983Ornithomimus Dodson p. 95
1983Ornithomimus Zhao p. 304
1984Ornithomimus Russell p. 25
1984Ornithomimus Thulborn p. 132
1985Ornithomimus Breithaupt p. 169
1985Ornithomimus sedens Breithaupt p. 169
1985Ornithomimus DeCourten and Russell p. 1093
1985Ornithomimus sedens DeCourten and Russell p. 1094
1986Ornithomimus Baird p. 78
1986Ornithomimus Clemens p. 79
1986Ornithomimus Gauthier p. 10
1986Ornithomimus sedens Gauthier p. 10
1987Ornithomimus Currie p. 53
1988Ornithomimus Carroll
1988Ornithomimus Paul p. 384
1992Ornithomimus Currie p. 246
1993Ornithomimus Chatterjee p. 282
1994Ornithomimus sedens Derstler p. 139
1996Ornithomimus sedens Novas p. 676
1997Ornithomimus Eberth p. 201
1997Ornithomimus Osmólska p. 502
1997Ornithomimus Ryan p. 257
1998Ornithomimus Sereno p. 65
2001Ornithomimus Barco and Ruiz-Omeñaca p. 251
2001Ornithomimus Eberth et al. p. 58
2003Ornithomimus Ji et al. pp. 16-17 fig. 12
2003Ornithomimus Kobayashi and Barsbold p. 68A
2003Ornithomimus Rauhut p. 40
2004Ornithomimus Makovicky et al. p. 138
2005Ornithomimus Kobayashi and Barsbold p. 119 fig. 6.11
2006Ornithomimus Kobayashi and Barsbold p. 204 fig. 8
2008Ornithomimus Longrich p. 983
2008Struthiomimus sedens Longrich p. 983
2009Ornithomimus Buffetaut et al. p. 234
2011Ornithomimus Xu et al. p. 220 fig. 9
2014Ornithomimus Lee et al. p. 259
2015Ornithomimus Alifanov and Saveliev p. 639 fig. 1
2016Ornithomimus Claessens and Loewen p. 2
2016Ornithomimus McFeeters et al. p. 17 fig. 14
2023Ornithomimus Hattori et al. p. 12 fig. 9

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptoriformes
—Arctometatarsalia
infraorderOrnithomimosauria
familyOrnithomimidae
genusOrnithomimus

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. †Ornithomimus Marsh 1890
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†Ornithomimus edmontonicus Sternberg 1933
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Invalid names: Struthiomimus currellii Parks 1933 [synonym], Struthiomimus ingens Parks 1933 [synonym], Struthiomimus samueli Parks 1928 [synonym]
†Ornithomimus minutus Marsh 1892
†Ornithomimus tenuis Marsh 1890
†Ornithomimus velox Marsh 1890
Invalid names: Ornithomimus sedens Marsh 1892 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available