Velociraptor mongoliensis Osborn 1924
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Description
AGE: Campanian, Late Cretaceous (Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum, 1997).
OCCURRENCE: Djadokhta Formation, Mongolia and China.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 6515, skull manual digit I.
REFERRED MATERIAL: IGM 100/24, complete skull and a few postcranial elements; IGM 100/25, complete skeleton; IGM 100/ 976, partial skeleton with a fragmentary skull and partial postcranium; IGM 100/986, fragmentary skeleton consisting of cranial and postcranial fragments; IGM 100/982, nearly completely preserved skeleton.
REMARKS: Velociraptor is one of the bestunderstood maniraptoran theropods from the Cretaceous. It is known from complete skulls and skeletons. Velociraptor has been used in many phylogenetic analyses examining the relationships of theropods (e.g., TWiG; Turner et al., 2007) and has been critical to understanding the theropod-bird link (Padian and Chiappe, 1998). Barsbold and Osmólska (1999) present a thorough diagnosis of Velociraptor based on the skull.
KEY REFERENCES: Osborn, 1924; Norell and Makovicky, 1997, 1999; Barsbold and Osmólska, 1999.
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- Journal article: 10.1206/352.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Osborn
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Saurischia
- Family
- Dromaeosauridae
- Genus
- Velociraptor
- Species
- mongoliensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Velociraptor mongoliensis Osborn, 1924 sec. Nesbitt, 2011
References
- Osborn, H. F. 1924. Three new Theropoda, Protoceratops zone, Central Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 144: 1 - 12.
- Kielan-Jaworowska, Z., and J. Hurum. 1997. Djadochtatheria - a new suborder of multituberculate mammals. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 42: 201 - 242.
- Turner, A. H., D. Pol, J. A. Clarke, G. M. Erickson, and M. A. Norell. 2007. A basal dromaeosaurid and size evolution preceding avian flight. Science 317: 1378 - 1381.
- Padian, K., and L. M. Chiappe. 1998. The origin and early evolution of birds. Biological Reviews 73: 1 - 42.
- Barsbold, R., and H. Osmolska. 1999. The skull of Velociraptor (Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 44: 189 - 219.
- Norell, M. A., and P. J. Makovicky. 1997. Important features of the dromaeosaur skeleton: information from a new specimen. American Museum Novitates 3215: 1 - 28.
- Norell, M. A., and P. J. Makovicky. 1999. Important features of the dromaeosaur skeleton II: information from newly collected specimens of Velociraptor mongoliensis., 3282: 1 - 45.