Skeletal restoration showing known elements (including those of Nomingia)
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
Saurischia
Clade:
Theropoda
Family:
†Caenagnathidae
Subfamily:
†Elmisaurinae
Genus:
†Elmisaurus Osmólska, 1981
Species:
†E. rarus
Binomial name
†Elmisaurus rarus
Osmólska, 1981
Synonyms
Chirostenotes rarus (Osmólska, 1981)
Nomingia gobiensis? Barsbold et al., 2000
Elmisaurus (meaning "foot sole lizard") is an extinct genus of caenagnathid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. It was a theropod belonging to the Oviraptorosauria.
Nomingia is a synonym of Elmisaurus. The cladogram below follows an analysis by Longrich et al. in 2013, which found Elmisaurus to be a caenagnathid. Dinosaurs...
Caenagnathus collinsi than to Elmisaurus rarus. The group Elmisaurinae is defined as including all species more closely related to Elmisaurus rarus than to Caenagnathus...
the specimen to a new species in the recently-described genus Elmisaurus — Elmisaurus elegans. He also referred two new specimens to the species. The...
other caenagnathids, such as Anomalipes, Apatoraptor, Chirostenotes, and Elmisaurus, all of which weighed under 70 kilograms (150 lb). The contemporary Anzu...
species, and named this as a second species of the closely related Elmisaurus: Elmisaurus elegans. In 1997, this was renamed to Chirostenotes elegans by Hans-Dieter...
genus Magrophalangia (now a junior synonym of Chirostenotes), then to Elmisaurus, and then to Chirostenotes before being named by Longrich and colleagues...
therizinosaurs, such as Therizinosaurus, oviraptorosaurians, such as Elmisaurus, Nemegtomaia, and Rinchenia, and other ornithomimosaurians, such as Anserimimus...
article by Funston and colleagues suggested Nomingia is a synonym of Elmisaurus. Nomingia is a medium-sized oviraptorosaur, estimated by Gregory S. Paul...
subsequently found to be a rhynchocephalian Elaltitan Elaphrosaurus Elemgasem Elmisaurus Elopteryx – possibly a bird Elosaurus – junior synonym of Brontosaurus...
and Gallimimus; oviraptorosaurs Avimimus, Gigantoraptor, Rinchenia and Elmisaurus; tyrannosaurids Alectrosaurus, Alioramus and possibly Bagaraatan; ankylosaurids...
Alioramus, troodontids (Borogovia, Tochisaurus, Zanabazar), oviraptorosaurs (Elmisaurus, Nemegtomaia, Rinchenia) or Bagaraatan, sometimes considered a basal tyrannosauroid...
Ornithomimus elegans, which is today seen as either Chirostenotes or Elmisaurus. That same year, Gilmore named Ornithomimus asiaticus for material found...
Caenagnathidae, in a derived position as a possible sister species of Elmisaurus. Timeline of oviraptorosaur research 2016 in paleontology Gregory F. Funston...
Formation, Alberta, Canada Prince Creek Formation, Alaska, USA †Elmisaurus †Elmisaurus rarus 70 Ma Nemegt Formation, Omnogovi Province, Mongolia An elmisaurine...
individuals." An oviraptorid. Also present in the Barun Goyot Formation. Elmisaurus E. rarus Altan Uul II, Nemegt Lower Middle or Upper "Fragmentary skull...
Caenagnathoidea, while Chirostenotes fell as a derived taxon related to Elmisaurus. The status and relationships of Caenagnathus to other caenagnathid oviraptorosaurians...
tibiotarsus, and rib) being referred to an indeterminate caenagnathid, possibly Elmisaurus. The material that is considered the holotype, which includes the mandible...
and fibula. A caenagnathid oviraptorosaur recovered as sister taxon to Elmisaurus . Atrociraptor A. marshalli Lower Horsethief Premaxillae, maxilla, dentaries...
found were thought to have belonged to Caenagnathus, Chirostenotes, and Elmisaurus. In 2016, an undescribed large-bodied caenagnathid was unearthed in Montana...
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