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Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs

Arbour, V. M.; Currie, P. J. (2015)

Citation

Arbour, V. M.; Currie, P. J. (2015). Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14(5): 385-444. Informa UK Limited. doi:10.1080/14772019.2015.1059985

Names first published here

Cited by genera

  • Ahshislepelta

    Recovered Ahshislepelta with Gastonia as the most basal ankylosaurids.

  • Ankylosaurus

    Comprehensive revision of Ankylosauridae; provides the current revised diagnosis of Ankylosaurus and erects the tribe Ankylosaurini with Ankylosaurus as the name-bearer.

  • Crichtonpelta
  • Crichtonsaurus

    Concludes that the C. bohlini holotype lacks any diagnostic characters and treats the species as a nomen dubium; splits C. benxiensis off as the new genus Crichtonpelta.

  • Glyptodontopelta

    Treats Glyptodontopelta mimus as valid on the dendritic surface texture of its osteoderms.

  • Graciliceratops

    Places Shiregin Gashun in the Bayanshiree Formation, for Maleevus from the same locality.

  • Heishansaurus

    Assessed Heishansaurus as an undiagnosable nomen dubium.

  • Liaoningosaurus

    Places the holotype in the Dawangzhangzi Bed.

  • Maleevus

    Assessed Maleevus as an undiagnosable nomen dubium without assigning it to a family.

  • Minmi

    Regarded Minmi paravertebra as a nomen dubium.

  • Minotaurasaurus

    Keeps Minotaurasaurus ramachandrani as a junior synonym of Tarchia kielanae.

  • Oohkotokia

    Treated Oohkotokia as a junior synonym of Scolosaurus cutleri.

  • Peishansaurus

    Finds it impossible to confirm from the figures that the type is ankylosaurian; no diagnosis was ever given.

  • Priconodon

    Summarized the disagreement over the validity of Priconodon crassus.

  • Shamosaurus

    Gives the holotype locality as Khamryn-Us and treats Dzunbain as an older transliteration of the Zuunbayan Formation.

  • Stegosaurides

    Found the affinities of Stegosaurides impossible to determine; nomen dubium, ?Thyreophora indet.

  • Taohelong

    Recovers Taohelong with Dongyangopelta and Sauroplites in an unresolved polytomy within Nodosauridae.

  • Tianchisaurus

    Regards it as a nomen dubium, Ankylosauria indet.; the holotype could not be located in 2010, its supposed tail club is probably not one, and it lacks distinguishing characters.

  • Tianzhenosaurus

    Formalizes T. youngi and Shanxia tianzhenensis as junior subjective synonyms of Saichania chulsanensis, finding no taxonomically significant differences between the holotype skulls.

  • Tsagantegia

    Reproduces the holotype's locality and age, giving the site as Tsagan-Teg in the southeastern Gobi.

  • Zhejiangosaurus

    Found Zhejiangosaurus too poorly diagnosable to uphold, a nomen dubium.

  • Zhongyuansaurus

    Found Zhongyuansaurus indistinguishable from Gobisaurus and treated it as a junior synonym.

Cited by clades

  • Ankylosauridae

    Revised Ankylosauridae, restricting it to Asia and North America and recovering Shamosaurinae as the sister group of Ankylosaurinae.

  • Ankylosaurinae

    Recovered Ankylosaurinae as the sister of Gobisaurus plus Shamosaurus, crediting the name to Nopcsa (1918) and its definition to Sereno (1998), as revised by Vickaryous and colleagues (2004).

  • Shamosaurinae

    Recovered Shamosaurinae (Gobisaurus + Shamosaurus) as sister to Ankylosaurinae.