Ornithopsis

Description

Ornithopsis (signifiant « semblable à un oiseau ») est un genre fossile de dinosaures sauropodes du Crétacé inférieur retrouvé en Angleterre. L'espèce-type, Ornithopsis hulkei, a été nommée et décrite par Harry Govier Seeley en 1870.

Information(s)

Source: The Paleobiology Database

Attibution: Seeley 1870³⁶⁷⁴⁷
Statut: Valide
Nom commun:
Longueur (en m): 10 to < 100
Largeur (en m): 10 to < 100
Hauteur (en m): 10 to < 100
Poids (en m): de à
Environnement de découverte: terrestrial
Mode de vie: terrestrial
Mode de locomotion: actively mobile
Vision: ?
Alimentation: herbivore
Mode de reprodution: oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile
Classification: Titanosauriformes >> Macronaria >> Neosauropoda >> Eusauropoda >> Gravisauria >> Sauropoda >> Saurischia >> Dinosauria
Période: Tithonian - Aptian (de -145.06 Ma à -119.57 Ma)

Espèce(s):
- Bothriospondylus magnus (Synonyme objectif de Ornithopsis hulkei)¹⁴¹²⁴
- Ornithopsis eucamerotus (nomen dubium, voir Brachiosauridae)¹⁴¹⁴²
- Ornithopsis hulkei (Valide)³⁶⁷⁴⁷
- Ornithopsis leedsi (nomen dubium, voir Eusauropoda)¹⁶⁹¹⁵
- Ornithopsis leedsii (nomen dubium, voir Eusauropoda)²⁵⁶⁹²
Specimen(s):
Pas de spécimen dans la base de donnée.
Autre(s) Taxon(s) trouvés dans la litterature:
- Bothriospondylus magnus n. objective synonym of Ornithopsis hulkei
- Ornithopsis eucamerotus n. nomen dubium Brachiosauridae
- Ornithopsis hulkei
- Ornithopsis
- Ornithopsis humerocristatus recombined as Duriatitan humerocristatus
- Ornithopsis greppini n. recombined as Amanzia greppini
- Ornithopsis leedsii n. nomen dubium Eusauropoda
Découverte(s): 10 occcurrences
Ouvrir - Fermer
- Suisse
  - Bern
    - ?
      - Formation Reuchenette
        Amanzia greppini identifié comme Ornithopsis greppini n. sp.: ? ⁵²⁷¹⁸
- Allemagne
  - North Rhine-Westphalia
    - Märkischer Kreis
      - Formation ?
        Ornithopsis: ? ⁸⁴²⁹⁵
- Royaume-Uni
  - England
    - Cambridgeshire
      - Formation Kimmeridge Clay
        Duriatitan humerocristatus identifié comme Ornithopsis humerocristatus: ? ¹⁴¹⁵⁸
      - Formation Oxford Clay
        Eusauropoda identifié comme Ornithopsis leedsii n. sp.: ? ²⁵⁶⁹²
    - Dorset
      - Formation Portland Stone
        Ornithopsis: ? ³¹⁴⁵⁷
    - Isle of Wight
      - Formation ?
        Ornithopsis: ? ⁹⁷⁹⁵
        Ornithopsis hulkei: ? ⁷⁴²⁵
      - Formation Wessex
        Brachiosauridae identifié comme Ornithopsis eucamerotus n. gen. n. sp.: ? ⁸⁶⁰⁸⁸
        Ornithopsis hulkei: ? ³⁶⁷⁴⁷
        Ornithopsis hulkei identifié comme Bothriospondylus magnus n. sp.: ? ¹⁴¹²⁴
Historique des modifications:

Pas de modification récente.

Publication(s)

La base comprend 12 publication(s).

Source: The Paleobiology Database

↑^{1 2 3}H. G. Seeley. 1870. On Ornithopsis, a gigantic animal of the pterodactyle kind from the Wealden. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 4 5:279-283 (https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937008696155)
↑^{1 2}R. Owen. 1875. Monographs on the fossil Reptilia of the Mesozoic formations. Part II. (Genera Bothriospondylus, Cetiosaurus, Omosaurus). 29:15-93 (https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.100403)
↑¹R. Lydekker. 1888. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London (https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800173480)
↑¹F. v. Huene. 1927. Sichtung der Grundlagen der jetzigen Kenntnis der Sauropoden [Sorting through the basis of the current knowledge of sauropods]. Eclogae Geologica Helveticae 20:444-470
↑^{1 2}J. W. Hulke. 1887. Note on some dinosaurian remains in the collection of A. Leeds, Esq. Part I. Ornithopsis leedsii. Part II. Omosaurus, sp. Geological Magazine, decade 3 4:375-376
↑¹F. v. Huene. 1922. Ueber einem Sauropoden im obern Malm des Berner Jura [On a sauropod in the upper Malm of the Bernese Jura]. Eclogae Geologicae Helveticae 17:80-94
↑¹J. J. Hornung, S. Sachs, and A. H. Schwermann. 2023. The first record of sauropod dinosaurs from a palaeotopographical upland environment and its implications for megaherbivorous dinosaur faunal turnover in the Early Cretaceous of northwestern Europe. Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen 97:3-36
↑¹R. Lydekker. 1888. Note on a new Wealden iguanodont and other dinosaurs. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 44:46-61 (https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.jgs.1888.044.01-04.08)
↑¹J. B. Delair. 1993. Reptilia from the Portland Stone (Upper Jurassic) of England: a preliminary survey of the material and the literature. Modern Geology 18:331-348
↑¹H. G. Seeley. 1882. On a remarkable dinosaurian coracoid from the Wealden of Brook in the Isle of Wight, preserved in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge, probably referable to Ornithopsis. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 38:367-371 (https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.jgs.1882.038.01-04.40)
↑¹J. W. Hulke. 1879. Note (3rd) on (Eucamerotus, Hulke) Ornithopsis, H. G. Seeley, = Bothriospondylus magnus Owen, = Chondrosteosaurus magnus, Owen. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 35:752-762 (https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.jgs.1879.035.01-04.55)
↑¹D. Naish and D. M. Martill. 2001. Saurischian dinosaurs 1: sauropods. Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight. Palaeontological Association Field Guides to Fossils 10:185-241

Galerie d'images

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Fossil vertebrae referred to the dinosaurs Ornithopsis or...