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Zanabazar junior

Reptilia - Troodontidae

Taxonomy
Saurornithoides junior was named by Barsbold (1974). Its type specimen is GI SPS 100-1, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bugin Tsav [SMPE], which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. It was considered monophyletic by Currie (2000).

It was synonymized subjectively with Troodon mongoliensis by Paul (1988); it was recombined as Zanabazar junior by Norell et al. (2009), Lü et al. (2010), Turner et al. (2011), Zanno et al. (2011), Bell et al. (2012), Gao et al. (2012), Evans et al. (2017) and van der Reest and Currie (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1974Saurornithoides junior Barsbold p. 1
1977Saurornithoides junior Rozhdestvensky p. 112
1977Saurornithoides junior Sues p. 591
1978Saurornithoides junior Sues p. 399
1981Saurornithoides junior Lehman p. 202
1981Saurornithoides junior Osmolska p. 89
1983Saurornithoides junior Barsbold p. 87
1984Saurornithoides junior Kielan-Jaworowska p. 100
1985Saurornithoides junior Currie p. 1644
1986Saurornithoides junior Gauthier p. 11
1991Saurornithoides junior Kurzanov and Osmólska p. 69
1992Saurornithoides junior Currie p. 238
1994Saurornithoides junior Chure p. 439
1994Saurornithoides junior Currie and Peng p. 2225
1994Saurornithoides junior Russell and Dong p. 2167
1997Saurornithoides junior Osmólska p. 472
1997Saurornithoides junior Varricchio p. 750
2000Saurornithoides junior Currie p. 444
2000Saurornithoides junior Norell et al. p. 9
2002Saurornithoides junior Chiappe p. 460
2003Saurornithoides junior Makovicky et al. p. 25 fig. 21
2003Saurornithoides junior Rauhut p. 42
2004Saurornithoides junior Makovicky and Norell p. 185
2004Saurornithoides junior Senter et al. p. 5
2007Saurornithoides junior Smith p. 104
2007Saurornithoides junior Turner et al. p. 3
2009Saurornithoides junior Bever and Norell p. 3
2009Zanabazar junior Norell et al. p. 28
2010Zanabazar junior Lü et al. p. 382
2011Zanabazar junior Turner et al. p. 7
2011Zanabazar junior Zanno et al. p. 8
2012Zanabazar junior Bell et al. p. 188
2012Zanabazar junior Gao et al. p. 10
2017Zanabazar junior Evans et al. p. 822
2017Zanabazar junior van der Reest and Currie p. 920

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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
—Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
infraorderDeinonychosauria
familyTroodontidae
subfamilyTroodontinae
genusZanabazar
speciesjunior()

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.

†Zanabazar junior Barsbold 1974
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
M. A. Norell et al. 2009As for Zanabazar.