Genre
Valide Éteint

Coelurus

Marsh 1879

Coelurus est un genre fossile de dinosaures coeluridés ayant vécu au Kimméridgien, il y a environ entre 155 et 152 Ma. Selon Paleobiology Database en 2025, l'espèce type est Coelurus fragilis.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
14
Groupe
Dinosaures
Carnivore Vivant au sol, solitaire Terrestre
Coelurus
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PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
Theropoda Clade non classé
Neotheropoda Clade non classé
Averostra Clade non classé
Tetanurae Clade non classé
Coelurosauria Clade non classé
Coelurus Genre
Sites de découverte 14 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇺🇸 États-Unis
14
Formations géologiques
Distribution temporelle
Aptien (121.4–113.2 Ma)
2
Tithonien (149.2–143.1 Ma)
11
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Espèces (3)
Coelurus agilis objective synonym of Coelurus fragilis 155 Ma
Coelurus fragilis 155 Ma
Coelurus gracilis nomen dubium, species not entered Coelurus 120 Ma
Synonymes (1)
Coelurus gracilis nomen dubium, species not entered Coelurus
Bibliographie
Description originale
O. C. Marsh. 1879. Notice of new Jurassic reptiles. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 18:501–505 DOI ↗
Bibliographie (13)
J. Bertog, D. L. Jeffery, and K. Coode, W. B. Hester, R. R. Robinson, J. Bishop. 2014. Taphonomic patterns of a dinosaur accumulation in a lacustrine delta system in the Jurassic Morrison Formation, San Rafael Swell, Utah, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica 17(3):36A:1-19 DOI ↗
H. Galiano and R. Albersdörfer. 2010. A New Basal Diplodocoid Species, Amphicoelias brontodiplodocus from the Morrison Formation, Big Horn Basin, Wyoming, with Taxonomic Reevaluation of Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Barosaurus and Other Genera. Dinosauria International (Ten Sleep, WY) Report for September 2010
K. Carpenter, C. A. Miles, and J. H. Ostrom, K. C. Cloward. 2005. Redescription of the small maniraptoran theropods Ornitholestes and Coelurus from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming. The Carnivorous Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington
M. V. Connely. 2002. Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Morrison Formation, Como Bluff, Wyoming
J. H. Ostrom and J. S. McIntosh. 1999. Marsh's Dinosaurs: The Collections from Como Bluff. Yale University Press, New Haven
T. R. Lipka. 1998. The affinities of the enigmatic theropods of the Arundel Clay facies (Aptian), Potomac Formation, Atlantic Coastal Plain of Maryland. Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems; New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:229-234
W. E. Miller, J. L. Baer, and K. L. Stadtman, B. B. Britt. 1991. The Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry, Mesa County, Colorado. Guidebook for Dinosaur Quarries and Tracksites Tour, Western Colorado and Eastern Utah
J. H. Ostrom. 1980. Coelurus and Ornitholestes: are they the same?. Aspects of Vertebrate History: Essays in Honor of Edwin Harris Colbert
C. W. Gilmore. 1914. Osteology of the armored Dinosauria in the United States National Museum, with special reference to the genus Stegosaurus. United States National Museum Bulletin 89:1-136 DOI ↗
C. W. Gilmore. 1909. A new rhynchocephalian reptile from the Jurassic of Wyoming, with notes on the fauna of "Quarry 9". Proceedings of the United States National Museum 37(1698):35-42 DOI ↗
O. C. Marsh. 1888. Notice of a new genus of Sauropoda and other new dinosaurs from the Potomac Formation. American Journal of Science 35:89-94 DOI ↗
O. C. Marsh. 1884. Principal characters of American Jurassic dinosaurs. Part VIII. The order Theropoda. The American Journal of Science, series 3 27:329-340 DOI ↗
O. C. Marsh. 1879. Notice of new Jurassic reptiles. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 18:501–505 DOI ↗