Deinocheiridae

Deinocheiridae is a family of ornithomimosaurian dinosaurs. The family was originally named by Halszka Osmólska and Roniewicz in 1970, including only the type genus Deinocheirus. In a 2014 study by Yuong-Nam Lee and others published in the journal Nature, it was found that Deinocheiridae was a valid family.[4]

Deinocheirids
Temporal range:
Early to Late Cretaceous,
Deinocheirus holotype
Holotype arms of Deinocheirus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Ornithomimosauria
Family: Deinocheiridae
Osmólska & Roniewicz, 1970
Type species
Deinocheirus mirificus
Osmólska & Roniewicz, 1970
Genera
Synonyms[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Claudia Inés Serrano-Brañas. 'Paraxenisaurus normalensis, a large deinocheirid ornithomimosaur from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 101 (2020). p. Article 102610. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102610.
  2. Hartman, Scott. A new paravian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America supports a late acquisition of avian flight. PeerJ 7 (2019). p. e7247. doi:10.7717/peerj.7247.
  3. Lee, Y.-N.. Resolving the long-standing enigmas of a giant ornithomimosaur Deinocheirus mirificus'. Nature 515 (7526) (2014). p. 1–4. doi:10.1038/nature13874.
  4. Bringing back the Deinocheiridae with Beishanlong and Garudimimus as added extras - 2014.