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Microvenator

Osteichthyes - Caenagnathidae

Taxonomy

Microvenator was named by Ostrom (1970). It is not extant. Its type is Microvenator celer.

It was assigned to Coelurosauria by Zhao (1983); to Coeluridae by Ostrom (1970), Molnar (1980), Carroll (1988); to Caenagnathinae by Paul (1988); to Oviraptoridae by Russell and Dong (1994); to Maniraptora by Osmolska (1990), Holtz (1996), Holtz (2000), Rauhut (2003); to Oviraptorosauria by Currie and Russell (1985), Mackovicky and Sues (1997), Makovicky and Sues (1998), Osmólska et al. (2004), Senter et al. (2004), Lü et al. (2004), Lü (2005), Balanoff et al. (2009); to Caenagnathoidea by Tsuihiji et al. (2017); and to Caenagnathidae by Russell (1984), Lü and Zhang (2005), Sullivan et al. (2011), Longrich et al. (2013), Lamanna et al. (2014), Lü et al. (2015), Tsuihiji et al. (2015), Funston and Currie (2016), Funston (2020).

Species

M. celer (type species), M. chagyabi

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1970	Microvenator Ostrom p. 71
1980	Microvenator Molnar p. 137
1983	Microvenator Zhao p. 304
1984	Microvenator Russell p. 23
1985	Microvenator Currie and Russell p. 25
1988	Microvenator Carroll
1988	Microvenator Paul p. 372
1990	Microvenator Osmolska p. 149
1994	Microvenator Russell and Dong p. 2123
1996	Microvenator Holtz, Jr. p. 42A
1997	Microvenator Mackovicky and Sues p. 62A
1998	Microvenator Makovicky and Sues p. 15 fig. 15
2000	Microvenator Holtz, Jr. p. 13 fig. 5
2003	Microvenator Rauhut p. 156
2004	Microvenator Lü et al. p. 112 fig. 8
2004	Microvenator Osmólska et al. p. 167
2004	Microvenator Senter et al. p. 5
2005	Microvenator Lü p. 136
2005	Microvenator Lü and Zhang p. 417
2009	Microvenator Balanoff et al. p. 2
2011	Microvenator Sullivan et al. p. 422
2013	Microvenator Longrich et al. p. 37
2014	Microvenator Lamanna et al. p. 10 fig. 6
2015	Microvenator Lü et al.
2015	Microvenator Tsuihiji et al. p. 61
2016	Microvenator Funston and Currie p. 14
2017	Microvenator Tsuihiji et al. p. 10
2020	Microvenator Funston p. 136 fig. 20

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida

Rank	Name	Author
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Saurischia	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptora
infraorder	Oviraptorosauria
family	Caenagnathidae
genus	Microvenator

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.

G. †Microvenator Ostrom 1970

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†Microvenator celer Ostrom 1970

†Microvenator chagyabi Zhao 1986

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean
femur circumference	1	35.0
tibia circumference	1	33.0

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteinfrao

Entire body:

yesg

Adult length:

1.0 to < 10infrao

Adult width:

0.1 to < 1.0infrao

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10infrao

Maximum body mass:

3 kgg

Minimum body mass:

1 kgg

Thickness:

intermediateinfrao

Architecture:

compact or denseinfrao

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partsinfrao

Grouping:

solitaryo

Environment:

terrestrialinfrao

Locomotion:

actively mobileinfrao

Life habit:

ground dwellinginfrao

Depth habitat:

surfaceinfrao

Diet:

omnivoreinfrao

Reproduction:

oviparousinfrao

Dispersal:

direct/internalinfrao

Dispersal 2:

mobileinfrao

Created:

2005-08-24 13:24:06

Modified:

2005-08-24 15:24:06

Source: g = genus, infrao = infraorder, o = order

References: Marsh 1875, Kiessling 2004, Averianov and Yarkov 2004, Peczkis 1995

Age range: base of the Middle Albian to the top of the Albian or 110.10000 to 100.50000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Aptian - Albian	121.4 - 100.5	USA (Wyoming)	M. celer (137566)
Middle Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian	110.1 - 93.9	USA (Montana)	M. celer (47346) M. sp. (55246)
Middle Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian	110.1 - 93.9	USA (Wyoming)	M. celer (50498)