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Struthiomimus

Reptilia - Ornithomimidae

Taxonomy

Struthiomimus was named by Osborn (1916) [in the same paper, Osborn also considers this a subgenus of Ornithomimus].

It was synonymized subjectively with Ornithomimus by Gilmore (1920), Huene (1923), Hay (1930), Gilmore (1933), Romer (1956), Parsch (1963), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Swinton (1970), Paul (1988).

It was assigned to Coelurosauria by Kuhn (1939); to Ornithomimosauria by Osmólska (1997); to Ornithomiminae by Nopcsa (1928), Ji et al. (2003); to Ornithomimosauria by Senter et al. (2004); and to Ornithomimidae by Osborn (1916), Matthew and Brown (1922), Lull (1924), Huene (1926), Huene (1927), Parks (1928), Huene (1934), Stromer (1934), Parks (1935), Osmólska et al. (1972), Russell (1972), Molnar (1980), Barsbold (1981), Nicholls and Russell (1981), Barsbold (1983), Dodson (1983), Thulborn (1984), Russell (1984), DeCourten and Russell (1985), Clemens (1986), Gauthier (1986), Currie (1987), Carroll (1988), Currie (1992), Chatterjee (1993), Ryan (1997), Eberth (1997), Eberth et al. (2001), Rauhut (2003), Kobayashi and Barsbold (2003), Makovicky et al. (2004), Kobayashi and Barsbold (2005), Kobayashi and Barsbold (2006), Longrich (2008), Buffetaut et al. (2009), Makovicky et al. (2010), Xu et al. (2011), Lee et al. (2014), Alifanov and Saveliev (2015), White et al. (2015), McFeeters et al. (2016), Claessens and Loewen (2016), Hattori et al. (2023).

Species

S. altus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1916	Struthiomimus Osborn p. 733 figs. 5-8, 11, pl. 24, 26
1922	Struthiomimus Matthew and Brown p. 368
1924	Struthiomimus Lull p. 232
1926	Struthiomimus Huene p. 100
1927	Struthiomimus Huene p. 260
1928	Struthiomimus Nopcsa p. 183
1928	Struthiomimus Parks pp. 3-6
1934	Struthiomimus Huene p. 19
1934	Struthiomimus Stromer p. 80
1935	Struthiomimus Parks p. 195
1939	Struthiomimus Kuhn p. 53
1972	Struthiomimus Osmólska et al. p. 104
1972	Struthiomimus Russell p. 382
1980	Struthiomimus Molnar p. 137
1981	Struthiomimus Barsbold
1981	Struthiomimus Nicholls and Russell p. 518
1983	Struthiomimus Barsbold p. 97
1983	Struthiomimus Dodson p. 95
1984	Struthiomimus Russell p. 25
1984	Struthiomimus Thulborn p. 132
1985	Struthiomimus DeCourten and Russell p. 1094
1986	Struthiomimus Clemens p. 79
1986	Struthiomimus Gauthier p. 10
1987	Struthiomimus Currie p. 53
1988	Struthiomimus Carroll
1992	Struthiomimus Currie p. 246
1993	Struthiomimus Chatterjee p. 282
1997	Struthiomimus Eberth p. 201
1997	Struthiomimus Osmólska p. 502
1997	Struthiomimus Ryan p. 391
2001	Struthiomimus Eberth et al. p. 58
2003	Struthiomimus Ji et al. pp. 16-17 fig. 12
2003	Struthiomimus Kobayashi and Barsbold p. 68A
2003	Struthiomimus Rauhut p. 40
2004	Struthiomimus Makovicky et al. p. 138
2004	Struthiomimus Senter et al. p. 2 fig. 2
2005	Struthiomimus Kobayashi and Barsbold p. 119 fig. 6.11
2006	Struthiomimus Kobayashi and Barsbold p. 204 fig. 8
2008	Struthiomimus Longrich p. 983
2009	Struthiomimus Buffetaut et al. p. 234
2010	Struthiomimus Makovicky et al.
2011	Struthiomimus Xu et al. p. 220 fig. 9
2014	Struthiomimus Lee et al. p. 259
2015	Struthiomimus Alifanov and Saveliev p. 639 fig. 1
2015	Struthiomimus White et al. p. 3
2016	Struthiomimus Claessens and Loewen p. 1
2016	Struthiomimus McFeeters et al. p. 17 fig. 14
2023	Struthiomimus 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	Struthiomimus

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. †Struthiomimus Osborn 1916

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†Struthiomimus altus Lambe 1902

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
femur circumference	2	112.1	99.0	127.0	113.0	19.8
fibula circumference	1	40.0	-	-	-	-
tibia circumference	1	90.0	-	-	-	-

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:

300 kgg

Minimum body mass:

100 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 13:16:39

Modified:

2005-08-24 15:16:39

Source: g = genus, infrao = infraorder

References: Peczkis 1995, Averianov and Yarkov 2004

Age range: base of the Judithian to the top of the Lancian or 83.60000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (18 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Canada (Alberta)	S. altus (52470 52473 52474 52476 52478)
Judithian	83.6 - 72.2	USA (Texas)	S. sp. (14489)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Canada (Alberta)	Ornithomimus altus (133004) S. altus (52475)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	USA (New Mexico)	S. altus (46995 47009 47013)
Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Canada (Alberta)	Ornithomimus altus (52477 150749) S. altus (61433)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Canada (Alberta)	Ornithomimus altus (52469)
Lancian	72.2 - 66.0	USA (Wyoming)	S. sp. (75297)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Canada (Alberta)	S. sp. (227002)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	USA (Wyoming)	S. sp. (26760)