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Deinocheiridae
Taxonomy
Deinocheiridae was named by Kielan-Jaworowska (1969) [nomen nudum in this paper].
It was synonymized subjectively with Ornithomimidae by Gauthier (1986).
It was assigned to Megalosauroidea by Osmólska and Roniewicz (1970); to Deinocheirosauria by Barsbold (1976), Barsbold (1977), Barsbold (1983); to Theropoda by Rozhdestvensky (1977), Carroll (1988); to Ornithomimosauria by Alifanov and Saveliev (2015); and to Ornithomimosauria by Lee et al. (2014), Serrano-Brañas et al. (2020), Hattori et al. (2023).
It was synonymized subjectively with Ornithomimidae by Gauthier (1986).
It was assigned to Megalosauroidea by Osmólska and Roniewicz (1970); to Deinocheirosauria by Barsbold (1976), Barsbold (1977), Barsbold (1983); to Theropoda by Rozhdestvensky (1977), Carroll (1988); to Ornithomimosauria by Alifanov and Saveliev (2015); and to Ornithomimosauria by Lee et al. (2014), Serrano-Brañas et al. (2020), Hattori et al. (2023).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1969 | Deinocheiridae Kielan-Jaworowska p. 37 |
| 1970 | Deinocheiridae Osmólska and Roniewicz p. 7 |
| 1976 | Deinocheiridae Barsbold p. 75 |
| 1977 | Deinocheiridae Barsbold p. 50 |
| 1977 | Deinocheiridae Rozhdestvensky p. 111 |
| 1983 | Deinocheiridae Barsbold p. 100 |
| 1988 | Deinocheiridae Carroll |
| 2014 | Deinocheiridae Lee et al. p. 257 |
| 2015 | Deinocheiridae Alifanov and Saveliev p. 640 |
| 2020 | Deinocheiridae Serrano-Brañas et al. |
| 2023 | Deinocheiridae Hattori et al. p. 12 fig. 9 |
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Fm. †Deinocheiridae Kielan-Jaworowska 1969
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G. †Paraxenisaurus Serrano-Brañas et al. 2020
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†Paraxenisaurus normalensis Serrano-Brañas et al. 2020
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| H. Osmólska and E. Roniewicz 1970 | Gigantic carnivorous dinosaur with long, slender scapula and long fore limbs; manus with three, uniformly developed fingers, ending in strong, large claws. | |
| Y.-N. Lee et al. 2014 | Ornithomimosaurs in which radius and ulna well-separated; flexor tubercle of manual ungual proximally positioned; cnemial crest of tibia projects strongly anterodorsally. |
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| Source: g = genus, infrao = infraorder | |||||
| References: Averianov and Yarkov 2004, Peczkis 1995 | |||||
Age range: base of the Aptian to the top of the Maastrichtian or 121.40000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Aptian | Japan (Fukui) | Coelurosauria indet. (38020) | |
| Middle Albian - Late/Upper Albian | Mongolia (Dornogov) | Ornithomimidae indet. (52007) | |
| Cenomanian - Santonian | Mongolia (Omnogov) | Deinocheirus sp. (137857) Garudimimus brevipes (67974) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian | Mexico (Coahuila) | Paraxenisaurus normalensis (136544) | |
| Maastrichtian | Mongolia (Omnogov) | Megalosauridae indet. (38695) Ornithomimidae indet. (55257 127674) |