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Ornithopsis hulkei

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Ornithopsis hulkei was named by Seeley (1870). Its type specimen is BMNH 28632, a set of vertebrae (posterior dorsal vertebra), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Brook Bay (Mantell collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial horizon in the Wessex Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was replaced with Bothriospondylus magnus by Owen (1875); it was synonymized subjectively with Hoplosaurus armatus by Lydekker (1889), Lydekker (1892); it was recombined as Pelorosaurus hulkei by Huene (1927), Steel (1970); it was synonymized subjectively with Pelorosaurus conybeari by McIntosh (1990); it was misspelled as Ornithopsis hulkii by Seeley (1880), Lydekker (1888), Lydekker (1888), Newton (1889), Bristow et al. (1889), Seeley (1889), Zittel (1890), Woodward and Sherborn (1890), Sauvage (1895), Sauvage (1898), Woodward (1898), Van Den Broeck (1900), Sauvage (1900), Nopcsa (1901), Mansel-Pleydell (1902), Swinton (1934), Swinton (1936), Blows (1983), Cheevely and Chapman (1992), Blows (1995), Blows (1998), Tidwell et al. (1999); it was considered a nomen dubium by Naish and Martill (2001).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1870Ornithopsis hulkei Cope p. 500
1870Ornithopsis hulkei Seeley p. 283
1875Bothriospondylus magnus Owen p. 24 figs. Pl. 6
1876Chondrosteosaurus magnus Owen p. 7 figs. Pl. 6
1876Bothriospondylus magnus Sauvage p. 439
1880Ornithopsis hulkii Seeley p. 59
1888Ornithopsis hulkei Lydekker p. 54
1889Ornithopsis hulkei Bristow et al. p. 7
1889Ornithopsis hulkei Newton p. 260
1889Ornithopsis hulkei Seeley p. 393 fig. 1
1890Ornithopsis hulkei Woodward and Sherborn p. 260
1890Ornithopsis hulkei Zittel p. 714
1895Ornithopsis hulkei Sauvage p. 468
1898Ornithopsis hulkei Sauvage p. 29
1898Ornithopsis hulkei Woodward p. 201
1900Ornithopsis hulkei Sauvage p. 504
1900Ornithopsis hulkei Van Den Broeck p. 82
1901Bothriospondylus magnus Nopcsa p. 204
1901Ornithopsis hulkei Nopcsa p. 206
1902Ornithopsis hulkei Mansel-Pleydell p. lxxvii
1927Pelorosaurus hulkei Huene p. 454
1934Ornithopsis hulkei Swinton p. 39
1936Ornithopsis hulkei Swinton p. 209
1970Bothriospondylus magnus Steel p. 67
1970Pelorosaurus hulkei Steel p. 68
1983Ornithopsis hulkei Blows p. 313
1992Ornithopsis hulkei Cheevely and Chapman p. 349
1995Ornithopsis hulkei Blows p. 188
1998Ornithopsis hulkei Blows p. 34
1999Ornithopsis hulkei Tidwell et al. p. 30
2004Ornithopsis hulkei Upchurch et al. p. 266
2006Ornithopsis hulkei Royo-Torres et al. figs. Table S2
2007Ornithopsis hulkei Naish and Martill p. 499

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Sauropoda()
—Gravisauria
—Eusauropoda
—Neosauropoda
—Macronaria
—Titanosauriformes
genusOrnithopsis
specieshulkei

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.

†Ornithopsis hulkei Seeley 1870
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Invalid names: Bothriospondylus magnus Owen 1875 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
W. T. Blows 1995Medium-sized brachiosaurid sauropod; posterior dorsal vertebrae are opisthocoelian with tall narrow centra; pleurocoels extend over the posterior two-thirds of the centrum near the base of the neural arch; the centrum has a basal ridge; parapophyses occur high on the neural arch.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteinfrao
Entire body: yesinfrao
Adult length: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult width: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult height: 10 to < 100infrao
Thickness: thickinfrao
Architecture: compact or denseinfrao
Form: sphericalinfrao
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partsinfrao
Grouping: gregariousinfrao
Environment: terrestrialinfrao
Locomotion: actively mobileinfrao
Life habit: ground dwellinginfrao
Diet: herbivoreinfrao
Reproduction: oviparousinfrao
Dispersal: direct/internalinfrao
Dispersal 2: mobileinfrao
Created: 2004-12-14 12:49:10
Modified: 2004-12-14 14:49:10
Source: infrao = infraorder
Reference: Marsh 1875

Age range: Barremian or 125.77000 to 121.40000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Hauterivian - Early/Lower Barremian132.6 - 121.4United Kingdom (England) Bothriospondylus magnus (157614)
Late/Upper Hauterivian - Early/Lower Aptian132.6 - 119.57United Kingdom (England) Ornithopsis hulkei (26796)
Barremian125.77 - 121.4United Kingdom (England) Ornithopsis hulkei (type locality: 122898)