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Alioramus

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)38609https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38609
Rankgenus (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Avetheropoda : Tyrannosauridae : Alioramus
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
-Eosuchia
-NeodiapsidaBenton 1985
-SauriaGauthier 1984
-Archosauromorpha
-CrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
-EucrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-Archosauria
informalAvemetatarsaliaBenton 1999
-OrnithodiraGauthier 1986
-DinosauromorphaBenton 1985
-DinosauriformesNovas 1992
-Dinosauria
-Saurischia
-Theropoda
-NeotheropodaBakker 1986
-AverostraPaul 2002
-TetanuraeGauthier 1986
orderAvetheropodaPaul 1988
suborderCoelurosauriaHuene 1914
superfamilyTyrannosauroideaWalker 1964
familyTyrannosauridaeOsborn 1906
subfamilyTyrannosaurinaeMatthew and Brown 1922
genusAlioramusKurzanov 1976
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosauridaestated without evidenceKurzanov, 1976
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Carnosauriastated without evidenceGauthier, 1986
Alioramusgenusbelongs to TyrannosauridaeimpliedCarroll, 1988
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosaurinaestated without evidencePaul, 1988
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosauridaestated without evidenceKurzanov, 1989
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosauridaestated with evidenceMolnar et al., 1990
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosauridaestated without evidenceMolnar, 1991
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosaurinaestated without evidenceHoltz, 1997
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosauridaestated without evidenceKnoll et al., 1999
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosaurinaestated without evidenceCurrie, 2000
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosauridaestated without evidenceRauhut, 2003
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosaurinaestated without evidenceCurrie, 2003
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosauroideastated with evidenceHoltz, 2004
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosauridaestated with evidenceBrusatte et al., 2009
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosauroideastated without evidenceLi et al., 2009
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosaurinaestated with evidenceCarr et al., 2011
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosauridaestated without evidenceAverianov et al., 2012
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Alioraministated with evidenceLu et al., 2014
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosauridaestated with evidenceHendrickx and Mateus, 2014
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosaurinaestated with evidenceCarr et al., 2017
Alioramusgenusbelongs to Tyrannosauridaestated without evidenceBrougham et al., 2019
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)4
First Recorded Appearance72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Last Recorded Appearance72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Environmentterrestrial (based on Theropoda)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Theropoda)
Dietcarnivore (based on Coelurosauria)
Reproductionoviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)
Ontogenyaccretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)
Taphonomyhydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)
Primary Reference (PBDB)S. M. Kurzanov. 1976. Noviy pozdnemelovoy karnozavr is Nogon-Tsava, Mongoliya [A new late Mesozoic carnosaur from Nogon-Tsav, Mongolia]. In N. N. Kramarenko, B. Luvsandansan, Y. I. Voronin, R. Barsbold, A. K. Rozhdestvensky, B. A. Trofimov & V. Y. Reshetov (eds.), Paleontology and Biostratigraphy of Mongolia. The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Transactions 3:93-104

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Alioramus altai
species
listed (PBDB)172.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Alioramus remotus
species
listed (PBDB)172.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Qianzhousaurus sinensis
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
172.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1976Alioramus Kurzanov p. 93 figs. 1-9
1983Alioramus Barsbold p. 95
1986Alioramus Gauthier p. 9
1988Alioramus Carroll
1988Alioramus Paul p. 327
1989Alioramus Kurzanov p. 5
1990Alioramus Molnar et al. p. 190
1991Alioramus Molnar p. 166
1991Alioramus Weishampel et al. p. 209
1992Alioramus Currie p. 241
1994Alioramus Currie and Zhao p. 2079
1997Alioramus Barsbold p. 448
1997Alioramus Holtz, Jr. p. 53A
1997Alioramus Vickaryous and Ryan p. 488
1999Alioramus Knoll et al. p. 105
2000Alioramus Currie pp. 448-449
YearName and Author
2001Alioramus Holtz, Jr. pp. 68-69 fig. 7.2
2003Alioramus Currie p. 663
2003Alioramus Currie et al. p. 230 fig. 2
2003Alioramus Rauhut p. 43
2004Alioramus Holtz, Jr. p. 113
2009Alioramus Brusatte et al. p. 17261
2009Alioramus Li et al.
2011Alioramus Carr et al.
2012Alioramus Averianov et al. p. 145
2013Alioramus Dalman p. 241
2014Alioramus Hendrickx and Mateus
2014Alioramus Lu et al.
2014Qianzhousaurus Lu et al.
2016Qianzhousaurus Wang et al. p. 2
2017Alioramus Carr et al. p. 9s
2019Alioramus Brougham et al. p. 14

References

Kurzanov S. M. (1976) Noviy pozdnemelovoy karnozavr is Nogon-Tsava, Mongoliya [A new late Mesozoic carnosaur from Nogon-Tsav, Mongolia], Paleontology and Biostratigraphy of Mongolia. The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Transactions 3, 93-104
Barsbold R. (1983) Khishchnye dinosavry mela Mongoliy [Carnivorous dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Mongolia], Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition 19, 1-117
Gauthier J. A. (1986) Saurischian monophyly and the origin of birds, The Origin of Birds and the Evolution of Flight, K. Padian (ed.), Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 8, 1-55
Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698
Paul G. S. (1988) , Predatory Dinosaurs of the World. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1-464
Molnar R. E. (1991) The cranial morphology of Tyrannosaurus rex, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 217 4-6, 137-176
Weishampel D. B., Grigorescu D., et al (1991) The dinosaurs of Transylvania, National Geographic Research & Exploration 7 2, 196-215
Currie P. J., Zhao X.-J. (1994) A new carnosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Jurassic of Xinjiang, People's Republic of China, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30 10-11, 2037-2081
Knoll F., Buffetaut E., et al (1999) A theropod braincase from the Jurassic of the Vaches Noires cliffs (Normandy, France): osteology and palaeoneurology, Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 1999 1, 103-109
Currie P. J. (2000) Theropods from the Cretaceous of Mongolia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 434-455
Currie P. J., Hurum J. H., et al (2003) Skull structure and evolution in tyrannosaurid dinosaurs, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48 2, 227-234
Rauhut O. W. M. (2003) The interrelationships and evolution of basal theropod dinosaurs, Special Papers in Palaeontology 69, 1-213
Holtz, Jr. T. R. (2004) Tyrannosauroidea, The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 111-136
Brusatte S. L., Carr T. D., et al (2009) A long-snouted, multihorned tyrannosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 41, 17261-17266 doi:10.1073/pnas.0906911106
Li D., Norell M. A., et al (2009) A longirostrine tyrannosauroid from the Early Cretaceous of China, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0249
Carr T. D., Williamson T. E., et al (2011) Evidence for high taxonomic and morphologic tyrannosauroid diversity in the Late Cretaceous (Late Campanian) of the American Southwest and a new short-skulled tyrannosaurid from the Kaiparowits Formation of Utah, Naturwissenschaften 98 3, 241-246 doi:10.1007/s00114-011-0762-7
Averianov A. O., Sues H.-D., et al (2012) The forgotten dinosaurs of Zhetysu (Eastern Kazakhstan; Late Cretaceous), Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences 316 2, 139-147
Dalman S. G. (2013) New examples of Tyrannosaurus rex from the Lance Formation of Wyoming, United States, Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 54 2, 241-254 doi:10.3374/014.054.0202
Hendrickx C., Mateus O. (2014) Abelisauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal and dentition-based phylogeny as a contribution for the indentification of isolated theropod teeth, Zootaxa 3759 1, 1-74
Lu J., Yi L., et al (2014) A new clade of Asian Late Cretaceous long-snouted tyannosaurids, Nature Communications, 1-10 doi:10.1038/ncomms4788
Wang S., Zhang S., et al (2016) Elongatoolithid eggs containing oviraptorid (Theropoda, Oviraptorosauria) embryos from the Upper Cretaceous of Southern China, BMC Evolutionary Biology 16 1, 1-21 doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0633-0
Carr T. D., Varricchio D. J., et al (2017) A new tyrannosaur with evidence for anagenesis and crocodile-like facial sensory system, Scientific Reports 7, 44942:1-11 doi:10.1038/srep44942
Brougham T., Smith E. T., et al (2019) New theropod (Tetanurae: Avetheropoda) material from the ‘mid’-Cretaceous Griman Greek Formation at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia, Royal Society Open Science 6, 180826:1-18 doi:10.1098/rsos.180826
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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