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Dromiceiomimus brevitertius

Reptilia - Ornithomimidae

Taxonomy
Struthiomimus brevetertius was named by Parks (1926). Its type specimen is ROM 797, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 2 miles below Bleriot ferry (125 ft level) [ROM], which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial sandstone in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Canada.

It was recombined as Ornithomimus brevitertius by Russell (1930), Russell (1933), Russell and Chamney (1967) and Paul (1988); it was corrected as Struthiomimus brevitertius by Sternberg (1933), Russell (1964) and Russell (1966); it was recombined as Ornithomimus brevetertius by Steel (1970); it was recombined as Dromiceiomimus brevetertius by Osmólska et al. (1972), DeCourten and Russell (1985), Hurum (2001), Zanno et al. (2013) and McFeeters et al. (2016); it was synonymized subjectively with Ornithomimus edmontonicus by Makovicky et al. (2004); it was misspelled as Struthiomimus brevitertius by Stromer (1931), Parks (1935) and Kuhn (1939); it was recombined as Dromiceiomimus brevitertius by Russell (1972), Coulton (1976), Molnar (1978), Gauthier (1986), Currie (1992), Osmólska (1997), Eberth (1997), Currie (2000), Rauhut (2003), Kobayashi and Barsbold (2006), Currie and Koppelhus (2015) and Macdonald and Currie (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1926Struthiomimus brevetertius Parks p. 65 fig. 1
1930Ornithomimus brevitertius Russell p. 150
1931Struthiomimus brevitertius Stromer p. 18
1933Ornithomimus brevitertius Russell p. 129
1933Struthiomimus brevitertius Sternberg p. 79
1935Struthiomimus brevetertius Parks p. 195
1939Struthiomimus brevetertius Kuhn p. 54
1964Struthiomimus brevitertius Russell p. 15
1966Struthiomimus brevitertius Russell p. 29
1967Ornithomimus brevitertius Russell and Chamney p. 10
1970Ornithomimus brevetertius Steel p. 19
1972Dromiceiomimus brevetertius Osmólska et al. p. 134
1972Dromiceiomimus brevitertius Russell p. 388 fig. 5
1976Dromiceiomimus brevitertius Coulton p. 177
1978Dromiceiomimus brevitertius Molnar p. 77
1985Dromiceiomimus brevetertius DeCourten and Russell p. 1094
1986Dromiceiomimus brevitertius Gauthier p. 10
1988Ornithomimus brevitertius Paul p. 392
1992Dromiceiomimus brevitertius Currie p. 246
1997Dromiceiomimus brevitertius Eberth p. 201
1997Dromiceiomimus brevitertius Osmólska p. 501
2000Dromiceiomimus brevitertius Currie p. 276
2001Dromiceiomimus brevetertius Hurum p. 34
2003Dromiceiomimus brevitertius Rauhut p. 38
2006Dromiceiomimus brevitertius Kobayashi and Barsbold p. 203
2013Dromiceiomimus brevetertius Zanno et al. p. 512
2015Dromiceiomimus brevitertius Currie and Koppelhus p. 626
2016Dromiceiomimus brevetertius McFeeters et al. p. 15
2019Dromiceiomimus brevitertius Macdonald and Currie p. 147–148

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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()
Maniraptoriformes
Arctometatarsalia
infraorderOrnithomimosauria
familyOrnithomimidae
genusDromiceiomimus
speciesbrevitertius(Parks 1926)

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available