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Ornithomimus velox Marsh 1890

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205, U. S. A.

Description

Suborder THEROPODA

Family ORNITHOMIMIDAE

Omithomimus velox

Figure 6

Material. — YPM 542 cotype left distal end of tibia, metatarsals II-IV, phalanges I-1-3, YPM 548 cotype metacarpals I—III (Denver Formation, Loc. 35); DMNH 33300 manus claw (Denver Formation, Loc. 19); UCM 3539 phalanx (Denver Formation; Loc. 27); UCM 47633 distal caudal (Denver Formation, Loc. 27); and USGS D902 manus claw (Denver Formation?; Loc. 15).

Description and discussion. —The type material was briefly described by Marsh (1890; see also 1896a, 1896 b), with additional comments about the taxon by Osborn (1916), Russell (1972), and DeCourten and Russell (1985). As a whole, the limb material is proportionally more gracile than other ornithomimids such as Garudimimus or even Struthiomimus. Additional specimens, primarily unguals, have been found elsewhere in the Denver Basin, but only from the Denver Formation. DMNH 33300 is a nearly complete ungual, 40 mm long.

Notes

Published as part of Kenneth Carpenter & D. Bruce Young, 2002, Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Denver Basin, Colorado, pp. 237-254 in Rocky Mountain Geology 37 on page 244, DOI: 10.2113/gsrocky.37.2.237, http://zenodo.org/record/3943081

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038D8781B565FF96FD826AB1F804A110

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.3943097 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.2113/gsrocky.37.2.237 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3943081 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB4FFF9B562FF91FFE46D07FFD6A911 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/038D8781B565FF96FD826AB1F804A110 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/165074936 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/21499/taxon/038D8781B565FF96FD826AB1F804A110.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Marsh
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Dinosauria
Family
Ornithomimidae
Genus
Ornithomimus
Species
velox
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ornithomimus velox Marsh, 1890 sec. Carpenter & Young, 2002

References

  • Russell, D. A., 1972, Ostrich dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of western Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 9, p. 375 - 402.
  • DeCourten, F. L., and Russell, D. A., 1985, A specimen of Ornithomimus veiox (Theropoda, Ornithomimidae) from the terminal Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah: Journal of Paleontology, v. 59, p. 1091 - 1099.