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Archaeornithomimus

Reptilia - Ornithomimidae

Taxonomy

Archaeornithomimus was named by Russell (1972). It was considered monophyletic by Currie (2000).

It was synonymized subjectively with Ornithomimus by Paul (1988).

It was assigned to Ornithomimosauria by Osmólska (1997); to Ornithomiminae by Ji et al. (2003); and to Ornithomimidae by Osmólska et al. (1972), Russell (1972), Rozhdestvensky (1977), Barsbold (1981), Nicholls and Russell (1981), Barsbold (1983), Russell (1984), Gauthier (1986), Carroll (1988), Smith and Galton (1990), Currie (1992), Dong (1992), Currie and Eberth (1993), Chatterjee (1993), Nessov (1995), Ryan (1997), Norell (1997), Buffetaut (1998), Makovicky and Norell (1998), Currie (2000), Rauhut (2003), Kobayashi and Barsbold (2003), Makovicky et al. (2004), Kobayashi and Barsbold (2005), Buffetaut et al. (2009), Xu et al. (2011), McFeeters et al. (2016), Claessens and Loewen (2016), Hattori et al. (2023).

Species

A. asiaticus, A. bissektensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1972	Archaeornithomimus Osmólska et al. p. 104
1972	Archaeornithomimus Russell
1977	Archaeornithomimus Rozhdestvensky p. 111
1981	Archaeornithomimus Barsbold
1981	Archaeornithomimus Nicholls and Russell p. 518
1983	Archaeornithomimus Barsbold p. 97
1984	Archaeornithomimus Russell p. 23
1986	Archaeornithomimus Gauthier p. 10
1988	Archaeornithomimus Carroll
1990	Archaeornithomimus Smith and Galton p. 256
1992	Archaeornithomimus Currie p. 246
1992	Archaeornithomimus Dong p. 164
1993	Archaeornithomimus Chatterjee p. 282
1993	Archaeornithomimus Currie and Eberth p. 137
1995	Archaeornithomimus Nessov p. 40
1997	Archeornithomimus Norell p. 101
1997	Archaeornithomimus Osmólska p. 502
1997	Archaeornithomimus Ryan p. 443
1998	Archaeornithomimus Buffetaut p. 93
1998	Archaeornithomimus Makovicky and Norell p. 2
2000	Archaeornithomimus Currie p. 446
2003	Archaeornithomimus Ji et al. pp. 16-17 fig. 12
2003	Archaeornithomimus Kobayashi and Barsbold p. 68A
2003	Archaeornithomimus Rauhut p. 40
2004	Archaeornithomimus Makovicky et al. p. 138
2005	Archaeornithomimus Kobayashi and Barsbold p. 119 fig. 6.11
2009	Archaeornithomimus Buffetaut et al. p. 235
2011	Archaeornithomimus Xu et al. p. 220 fig. 9
2016	Archaeornithomimus Claessens and Loewen p. 1
2016	Archaeornithomimus McFeeters et al. p. 17 fig. 14
2023	Archaeornithomimus Hattori et al. p. 12 fig. 9

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida

Rank	Name	Author
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptoriformes
—	Arctometatarsalia
infraorder	Ornithomimosauria
family	Ornithomimidae
genus	Archaeornithomimus

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.

G. †Archaeornithomimus Russell 1972

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†Archaeornithomimus asiaticus Gilmore 1933

†Archaeornithomimus bissektensis Nessov 1995

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
femur circumference	2	104.5	103.0	106.0	104.5	2.12
tibia circumference	5	99.3	89.0	115.0	102.0	11.0

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteinfrao

Entire body:

yesg

Adult length:

1.0 to < 10infrao

Adult width:

0.1 to < 1.0infrao

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10infrao

Maximum body mass:

100 kgg

Minimum body mass:

30 kgg

Thickness:

thickinfrao

Architecture:

compact or denseinfrao

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partsinfrao

Grouping:

gregariousinfrao

Environment:

terrestrialinfrao

Locomotion:

actively mobileinfrao

Life habit:

ground dwellinginfrao

Diet:

herbivoreinfrao

Diet 2:

omnivoreinfrao

Reproduction:

oviparousinfrao

Dispersal:

direct/internalinfrao

Dispersal 2:

mobileinfrao

Created:

2005-08-24 13:17:12

Modified:

2005-08-24 15:17:12

Source: g = genus, infrao = infraorder

References: Peczkis 1995, Averianov and Yarkov 2004

Age range: base of the Middle Turonian to the top of the Late/Upper Campanian or 93.90000 to 72.20000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Middle Turonian - Late/Upper Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Uzbekistan (Navoi)	A. bissektensis (58165)
Coniacian - Santonian	89.8 - 83.6	Kazakhstan (Turkistan)	Ornithomimus asiaticus (53132)
Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	China (Nei Mongol)	Ornithomimidae indet. (48932 48933)