Species
Valid Extinct

Elopteryx nopcsai

Andrews 1913

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Coelurosauria Unranked clade
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Alvarezsauria Infraorder
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Alvarezsauroidea Unranked clade
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Alvarezsauridae Family
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Elopteryx Genus
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Elopteryx nopcsai Species
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇷🇴 Romania
3
Geological formations
Sînpetru
2
Râul Mare
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
3
Bibliography
Original description
C. W. Andrews. 1913. On some bird remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Transslyvania. Geological Magazine, new series, decade 5 10(5):193-196 DOI ↗
Bibliography (3)
Z. Csiki-Sava, M. Vremir, and S. Vasile, S. L. Brusatte, G. Dyke, D. Naish, M. A. Norell, R. Totoianu. 2016. The East Side Story – The Transylvanian latest Cretaceous continental vertebrate record and its implications for understanding Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary events. Cretaceous Research 57:662-698 DOI ↗
E. Kessler, D. Grigorescu, and Z. Csiki. 2005. Elopteryx revisited-A new bird-like specimen from the Maastrichtian of the Hateg Basin (Romania). Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 5:249-258
C. W. Andrews. 1913. On some bird remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Transslyvania. Geological Magazine, new series, decade 5 10(5):193-196 DOI ↗