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Elopteryx ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	90545	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=90545

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Avetheropoda : Alvarezsauridae : Elopteryx

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Theropoda
-	Neotheropoda	Bakker 1986
-	Averostra	Paul 2002
-	Tetanurae	Gauthier 1986
order	Avetheropoda	Paul 1988
suborder	Coelurosauria	Huene 1914
-	Maniraptora	Gauthier 1986
family	Alvarezsauridae	Bonaparte 1991
genus	Elopteryx	Andrews 1913

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Elopteryx	genus	belongs to Aves	stated without evidence	Andrews, 1913
Elopteryx	genus	belongs to Elopterygidae	stated without evidence	Lambrecht, 1933
Elopteryx	genus	belongs to Pelecaniformes	stated without evidence	Harrison and Walker, 1975
Elopteryx	genus	belongs to Elopterygidae	stated without evidence	Olson, 1985
Elopteryx	genus	belongs to Troodontidae	stated without evidence	Weishampel et al., 1991
Elopteryx	genus	belongs to Dromaeosauridae	stated without evidence	Le Loeuff et al., 1992
Elopteryx	genus	belongs to Alvarezsauridae	stated without evidence	Xu et al., 2010

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Theropoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Theropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Coelurosauria)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. W. Andrews. 1913. On some bird remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Transslyvania. Geological Magazine, new series, decade 5 10(5):193-196

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Elopteryx nopcsai ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1913	Elopteryx Andrews p. 195 figs. 1-2
1933	Elopteryx Lambrecht p. 287
1960	Elopteryx Wetmore p. 25
1972	Elopteryx Howard p. 5
1975	Elopteryx Harrison and Walker p. 563
1985	Elopteryx Olson p. 192
1991	Elopteryx Weishampel et al. p. 209
1992	Elopteryx Le Loeuff et al. p. 339
1998	Elopteryx Le Loeuff and Buffetaut p. 110
2010	Elopteryx Xu et al. p. 15

References

Andrews C. W. (1913) On some bird remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Transslyvania, Geological Magazine, new series, decade 5 10 5, 193-196

Lambrecht K. (1933) Handbuch der Palaeornithologie, 1-1024

Wetmore A. (1960) A classification for the birds of the world, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 139 11, 1-37

Howard H. (1972) Type specimens of avian fossils in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science, 1-27

Harrison C. J. O., Walker C. A. (1975) The Bradycnemidae, a new family of owls from the Upper Cretaceous of Romania, Palaeontology 18 3, 563-570

Olson S. L. (1985) The fossil record of birds, Avian Biology VIII, 79-256

Weishampel D. B., Grigorescu D., et al (1991) The dinosaurs of Transylvania, National Geographic Research & Exploration 7 2, 196-215

Le Loeuff J., Buffetaut E., et al (1992) The first record of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs (Saurischia, Theropoda) in the Maastrichtian of southern Europe: palaeobiogeographical implications, Bulletin de la Société géologique de la France 163 3, 337-343

Le Loeuff J., Buffetaut E. (1998) A new dromaeosaurid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France, Oryctos 1, 105-112

Xu X., Wang D.-Y., et al (2010) A basal parvicursorine (Theropoda: Alvarezsauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of China, Zootaxa 2413, 1-19

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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