[D] Microvenator celer [Su] [sG] [T]
Describer
Ostrom, 1970
Time
Cretaceous Early Aptian Albian
Classification
Saurischia Theropoda Tetanurae Coelurosauria
Diet
Carnivore
Fossilsite
Cloverly Formation Montana, Wyoming, US
Info
Genus - Typespecies - Skull
A fragmentary skeleton, including parts of the skull (verry fragmented), parts of 17 precacral vertrbrae, 1 sacral, 9 caudals, and several fragments of the appendicular skeleton (coracoid ,humerus, ulna,pubes, phalanges, femur, tibia, fibula) Ostrom compared Microvenator with a variety of theropods, and concluded that is was most probably related to \\\\\\\"coelurids\\\\\\\" that is, Compsognathus, Ornitholestes, and Coelurus.
More recently Gauthier (1986) reassessed Mircovenator and placed it as a maniraptoran on the basis of four characters: elongate forlimb, bowed ulna, reduction of the cranial part of the pubic foot, and absence of a crested fourth trochanter. Although not a great deal is known of this specimen, the characters of the forelimb and hindlimb are suggestive not only of Maniraptora but also of the Ornithomimidae.
Ostrom, 1970
Time
Cretaceous Early Aptian Albian
Classification
Saurischia Theropoda Tetanurae Coelurosauria
Diet
Carnivore
Fossilsite
Cloverly Formation Montana, Wyoming, US
Info
Genus - Typespecies - Skull
A fragmentary skeleton, including parts of the skull (verry fragmented), parts of 17 precacral vertrbrae, 1 sacral, 9 caudals, and several fragments of the appendicular skeleton (coracoid ,humerus, ulna,pubes, phalanges, femur, tibia, fibula) Ostrom compared Microvenator with a variety of theropods, and concluded that is was most probably related to \\\\\\\"coelurids\\\\\\\" that is, Compsognathus, Ornitholestes, and Coelurus.
More recently Gauthier (1986) reassessed Mircovenator and placed it as a maniraptoran on the basis of four characters: elongate forlimb, bowed ulna, reduction of the cranial part of the pubic foot, and absence of a crested fourth trochanter. Although not a great deal is known of this specimen, the characters of the forelimb and hindlimb are suggestive not only of Maniraptora but also of the Ornithomimidae.