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Gigantoraptor
Taxonomy
Gigantoraptor was named by Xu et al. (2007).
It was assigned to Oviraptorosauria by Xu et al. (2007); to Oviraptoridae by Xu and Han (2010), Sullivan et al. (2011); and to Caenagnathidae by Longrich et al. (2010), Longrich et al. (2013), Lamanna et al. (2014), Lü et al. (2015), Yao et al. (2015), Tsuihiji et al. (2015), Funston and Currie (2016), Tsuihiji et al. (2017), Funston (2020).
It was assigned to Oviraptorosauria by Xu et al. (2007); to Oviraptoridae by Xu and Han (2010), Sullivan et al. (2011); and to Caenagnathidae by Longrich et al. (2010), Longrich et al. (2013), Lamanna et al. (2014), Lü et al. (2015), Yao et al. (2015), Tsuihiji et al. (2015), Funston and Currie (2016), Tsuihiji et al. (2017), Funston (2020).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2007 | Gigantoraptor Xu et al. p. 844 |
| 2010 | Gigantoraptor Longrich et al. p. 953 fig. 7 |
| 2010 | Gigantoraptor Xu and Han p. 16 fig. 3 |
| 2011 | Gigantoraptor Sullivan et al. p. 421 |
| 2013 | Gigantoraptor Longrich et al. p. 41 fig. 14 |
| 2014 | Gigantoraptor Lamanna et al. p. 10 fig. 6 |
| 2015 | Gigantoraptor Lü et al. |
| 2015 | Gigantoraptor Tsuihiji et al. p. 60 |
| 2015 | Gigantoraptor Yao et al. p. 291 |
| 2016 | Gigantoraptor Funston and Currie p. 14 |
| 2017 | Gigantoraptor Tsuihiji et al. p. 10 |
| 2020 | Gigantoraptor Funston p. 136 fig. 20 |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| femur circumference | 1 | 352.0 |
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| Source: infrao = infraorder, o = order | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Marsh 1875, Averianov and Yarkov 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Campanian to the top of the Late/Upper Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian | China (Nei Mongol) | G. erlianensis (64017) |