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Stenopelix valdensis
Taxonomy
Stenopelix valdensis was named by Meyer (1857). Its type specimen is GZG 741/2 (formerly GPI 741-1, 2), a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Harrl quarry, Bückeburg, which is in a Berriasian terrestrial sandstone in the Bückeberg Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Stenopelix.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1857 | Stenopelix valdensis Meyer p. 533 |
| 1870 | Stenopelyx valdensis Huxley |
| 1871 | Stenopelix valdensis Bunzel p. 7 |
| 1884 | Stenopelyx valdensis Dames p. 186–187 |
| 1887 | Stenopelix valdensis Koken p. 10 |
| 1890 | Stenopelix valdensis Zittel p. 744 |
| 1900 | Stenopelix valdensis Van Den Broeck p. 86 |
| 1901 | Stenoplyx valdensis Nopcsa p. 216 |
| 1936 | Stenopelix valdensis Swinton p. 572 |
| 1964 | Stenopelix valdensis Kuhn p. 30 |
| 1964 | Stenopelix valdensis Tatarinov p. 555 |
| 1967 | Stenopelix valdensis Charig p. 717 |
| 1969 | Stenopelix valdensis Schmidt p. 194 |
| 1970 | Stenopelix valdensis Swinton p. 200 |
| 1974 | Stenopelix valdensis Maryańska and Osmólska p. 47ff |
| 1982 | Stenopelix valdensis Sues and Galton p. 184 |
| 1990 | Stenopelix valdensis Dodson p. 563 |
| 1994 | Stenopelix valdensis Olshevsky and Ford p. 91 |
| 1998 | Stenopelix valdensis Windolf p. 3 |
| 2000 | Stenopelix valdensis Sereno pp. 497-498 fig. 25.8 |
| 2003 | Stenopelix valdensis Williamson and Carr fig. 11 |
| 2004 | Stenopelix valdensis Maryanska et al. p. 465 |
| 2006 | Stenopelix valdensis Pereda Suberbiola et al. p. 228 |
| 2006 | Stenopelix valdensis Sullivan p. 349 |
| 2007 | Stenopelix valdensis Hornung and Reich p. 34 |
| 2008 | Stenopelix valdensis Butler et al. p. 11 |
| 2009 | Stenopelix valdensis Butler and Sullivan pp. 22-23 figs. 1-6 |
| 2012 | Stenopelix valdensis Han et al. p. 1391 fig. 14 |
| 2016 | Stenopelix valdensis Becerra et al. p. 564 |
| 2016 | Stenopelix valdensis Hübner p. 325 |
| 2018 | Stenopelix valdensis Bell et al. p. 29 |
| 2019 | Stenopelix valdensis Morschhauser et al. p. 135 |
| 2020 | Stenopelix valdensis Dieudonné et al. |
| 2020 | Stenopelix valdensis Yang et al. p. 4 |
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†Stenopelix valdensis Meyer 1857
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. J. Butler et al. 2008 | The ischium of Stenopelix has the following autapomorphies: distinct bend at mid-shaft; broadest at mid-shaft and tapers anteriorly and posteriorly; blade is transversely arched distally, being ventrally convex and dorsally concave.
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| R. J. Butler and R. M. Sullivan 2009 | Small ornithischian dinosaur with the following autapomorphies: postacetabular process of ilium tapers uniformly to a rounded point; ischial blade with distinct bend at mid shaft; ischial blade is broadest at mid shaft, tapers proximally and distally; prominent proximodistally extending ridge present on the medial surface of the proximal 50% of the schaft of the ischium; distal end of ischial blade is arched dorsoventrally, with a convex lateral surface and a concave medial surface (modified from Sereno 1987). |
Measurements
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| References: Norman and Weishampel 1991, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Berriasian or 145.00000 to 140.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Berriasian | Germany (Niedersachsen) | Stenopelix valdensis (type locality: 69694) |