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Tanius

Reptilia

Taxonomy

Tanius was named by Wiman (1929).

It was assigned to Protrachodontidae by Huene (1948); to Ornithopoda by Huene (1958); to Prohadrosauridae by Huene (1959); to Prohadrosaurinae by Casamiquela (1964); to Lambeosaurinae by Tatarinov (1964) and Rozhdestvensky (1968); to Hadrosaurinae by Nagao (1936), Riabinin (1939), Young (1958), Zhen (1976), Brett-Surman (1979), Maryanska and Osmólska (1981), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Maryanska and Osmólska (1984), Chapman and Brett-Surman (1990), Dong (1992), Buffetaut and Tong-Buffetaut (1993) and Godefroit et al. (2004); to Hadrosauridae by Wiman (1929), Gilmore (1933), Romer (1956), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966), Thulborn (1974), Rozhdestvensky (1977), Carroll (1988), Weishampel and Horner (1990), Taquet (1991), Horner (1992) and Horner et al. (2004); to Hadrosauroidea by Godefroit et al. (1998), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2006), McDonald et al. (2010), Prieto-Marquez and Salinas (2010), Prieto-Márquez and Wagner (2010) and Ramírez-Velasco et al. (2012); to Hadrosauroidea by Prieto-Márquez (2010), Prieto-Márquez (2010), Juárez Valieri et al. (2010), Xu et al. (2016) and Cruzado-Caballero and Powell (2017); and to Hadrosauromorpha by Verdú et al. (2021).

Species

T. chingkankouensis, T. laiyangensis, T. sinensis

Synonyms

Tanius laiyangensis was named by Zhen (1976). Its type specimen is IVPP and is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Jingangkou Locality 2, Laiyang (BNHM), which is in a Campanian crevasse splay mudstone in the Jingangkou Formation of China.

It was synonymized subjectively with Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus by Weishampel and Horner (1990) and Horner et al. (2004); it was considered a nomen nudum by Dong (1992); it was considered a nomen dubium by Zhang et al. (2017).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1929	Tanius Wiman p. 41
1933	Tanius Gilmore p. 40
1936	Tanius Nagao p. 213
1939	Tanius Riabinin p. 15
1948	Tanius Huene p. 94
1956	Tanius Romer p. 630
1958	Tanius Huene p. 206
1958	Tanius Young p. 91
1959	Tanius Huene p. 122
1964	Tanius Casamiquela
1964	Tanius Kuhn p. 27
1964	Tanius Tatarinov p. 568
1966	Tanius Romer p. 370
1968	Tanius Rozhdestvensky
1974	Tanius Thulborn p. 173
1976	Tanius Zhen p. 166
1976	Tanius laiyangensis Zhen p. 168
1977	Tanius Rozhdestvensky p. 113
1979	Tanius Brett-Surman p. 561 fig. 1
1981	Tanius Maryanska and Osmólska p. 8
1981	Tanius laiyangensis Maryanska and Osmólska p. 8
1983	Tanius Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1984	Tanius Maryanska and Osmólska p. 131
1988	Tanius Carroll
1990	Tanius Chapman and Brett-Surman p. 177
1990	Tanius Weishampel and Horner p. 556
1991	Tanius Taquet p. 63
1992	Tanius Dong p. 165
1992	Tanius Horner p. 15
1993	Tanius Buffetaut and Tong-Buffetaut p. 1261
1998	Tanius Godefroit et al. p. 8
2004	Tanius Godefroit et al. p. 149
2004	Tanius Horner et al. p. 439
2006	Tanius Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 938
2010	Tanius Juárez Valieri et al. p. 228
2010	Tanius McDonald et al. p. 33 fig. 39
2010	Tanius Prieto-Marquez and Salinas p. 835 fig. 20
2010	Tanius Prieto-Márquez p. 5 fig. 2
2010	Tanius Prieto-Márquez and Wagner p. 1243 fig. 3
2012	Tanius Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 392
2012	Tanius laiyangensis Wang et al. p. 406
2016	Tanius Xu et al. p. 71
2017	Tanius Cruzado-Caballero and Powell p. 12 fig. 13
2021	Tanius Verdú et al. p. 10 fig. 9

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

Rank	Name	Author
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Ornithischia	()
—	Genasauria
—	Cerapoda
—	Ornithopoda	()
—	Clypeodonta
—	Iguanodontia	()
—	Dryomorpha
—	Styracosterna
—	Hadrosauriformes
—	Hadrosauroidea	()
genus	Tanius

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. †Tanius Wiman 1929

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†Tanius chingkankouensis Young 1958

†Tanius sinensis Wiman 1929

Invalid names: Tanius laiyangensis Zhen 1976 [nomen dubium]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteo

Entire body:

yesg

Adult length:

10 to < 100o

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10o

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10o

Maximum body mass:

3000 kgg

Minimum body mass:

1000 kgg

Architecture:

compact or denseo

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partso

Grouping:

gregariouso

Environment:

terrestrialo

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

ground dwellingo

Diet:

herbivoresubo

Reproduction:

oviparouso

Dispersal:

direct/internalo

Dispersal 2:

mobileo

Created:

2005-08-25 05:56:31

Modified:

2005-08-25 07:56:31

Source: g = genus, subo = suborder, o = order

References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983, Peczkis 1995

Age range: base of the Coniacian to the top of the Campanian or 89.80000 to 72.10000 Ma

Collections (5 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Coniacian - Santonian	89.8 - 83.6	China (Shandong)	T. sinensis (35966 62360)
Campanian	83.6 - 72.1	China (Shandong)	T. chingkankouensis (55461) T. laiyangensis (52943) T. sinensis (55469)