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Gobipteryx minuta

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Gobipteryx minuta was named by Elzanowski (1974). Its type specimen is ZPal MgR-I/12, a skull (fragmentary and distorted skull and mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Khulsan (general) [PMPE], which is in a Campanian/Campanian eolian sandstone/sandstone in the Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1974Gobipteryx minuta Elzanowski p. 104 figs. 1-2
1978Gobipteryx minuta Brodkorb p. 224
1981Gobipteryx minuta Elzanowski p. 169
1982Gobipteryx minuta Morris p. 488
1991Gobipteryx minuta Chatterjee p. 328
1991Gobipteryx minuta Sabath p. 181
1996Nanantius valifanovi Kurochkin pp. 7-8 figs. 1-11, Pl. 1-4
2000Gobipteryx minuta Kurochkin p. 537
2000Nanantius valifanovi Kurochkin p. 538
2001Gobipteryx minuta Chiappe et al. p. 2
2002Gobipteryx minuta Chiappe p. 461
2004Gobipteryx minuta Padian p. 212
2013Gobipteryx minuta Zhou et al.
2015Gobipteryx minuta Varricchio et al. p. 9
2020Gobipteryx minuta Czepiński p. 490

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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()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
RankNameAuthor
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
—PygostyliaChiappe 2002
—Ornithothoraces
subclassEnantiornithes
genusGobipteryx
speciesminuta

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.

†Gobipteryx minuta Elzanowski 1974
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Invalid names: Nanantius valifanovi Kurochkin 1996 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:39:15
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:39:15
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983

Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Mongolia (Omnogov Aimak) Gobipteryx sp. (37184)
Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Mongolia (Omnogov) Gobipteryx minuta (type locality: 13776 13777)
Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Mongolia (Omnogovi) Nanantius valifanovi (58105)