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Anchiornis
Taxonomy
Anchiornis was named by Xu et al. (2009).
It was assigned to Deinonychosauria by Lee and Worthy (2011); to Avialae by Xu et al. (2009), Godefroit et al. (2013); to Paraves by O'Connor and Sullivan (2014), Zhou and Wang (2017); and to Troodontidae by Hu et al. (2009), Lü et al. (2010), Tsuihiji et al. (2014), van der Reest and Currie (2017), Gianechini et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Deinonychosauria by Lee and Worthy (2011); to Avialae by Xu et al. (2009), Godefroit et al. (2013); to Paraves by O'Connor and Sullivan (2014), Zhou and Wang (2017); and to Troodontidae by Hu et al. (2009), Lü et al. (2010), Tsuihiji et al. (2014), van der Reest and Currie (2017), Gianechini et al. (2017).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2009 | Anchiornis Hu et al. |
| 2009 | Anchiornis Xu et al. p. 640 figs. 1-4 |
| 2010 | Anchiornis Lü et al. p. 381 |
| 2011 | Anchiornis Lee and Worthy p. 3 |
| 2013 | Anchiornis Godefroit et al. |
| 2014 | Anchiornis O'Connor and Sullivan |
| 2014 | Anchiornis Tsuihiji et al. p. 139 |
| 2017 | Anchiornis Gianechini et al. p. 9 |
| 2017 | Anchiornis Zhou and Wang p. 245 |
| 2017 | Anchiornis van der Reest and Currie p. 933 |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Marsh 1875, Holtz et al. 2000 | |||||
Age range: Oxfordian or 161.50000 to 154.80000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Bathonian - Early/Lower Kimmeridgian | China (Liaoning) | A. huxleyi (92421 106306) | |
| Oxfordian | China (Liaoning) | A. huxleyi (91487) |