R: Dromaeosauridae names, please!

["Alessandro Marisa" <amaris@tin.it>]

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From: Caleb Lewis <terminator2029@usa.net>
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Subject: Dromaeosauridae names, please!

> I was wondering if any of you would be kind enough to furnish me with the
> names of all known Dromaeosaurids, and if you're REALLY in a good mood,
>also
> provide me with their respective papers, however many there may be.

Dromaeosaurus Matthew & Brown 1922
D. albertensis Matthew & Brown 1922
Refs: Currie New information on the anatomy and relationships of
Dromaeosaurus albertensis (Dinosauria:Theropoda) SVP 15(3) pp:576-591
September 1995;
Colbert & Russell 1969 The small Cretaceous dinosaur Dromaeosaurus. American
Museum Novitates 2380 pp:1-49

Achillobator Perle, Norel & Clark 1999
A. giganticus Perle, Norel & Clark 1999
Refs: Perle, Norell, & Clark 1999 A new maniraptoran
Theropod Achillobator giganticus (Dromaeosauridae) from the Upper
Cretaceous of Burkhant, Mongolia. Contribution.101 of the
Mongolian-American Paleontological Project pp 1-105

Utahraptor Kirkland, Gaston & Burge 1993
U. ostrommaysorum Kirkland, Gaston & Burge 1993
Refs: Kirkland, Burge & Gaston 1993 A large Dromaeosaur (Theropoda) from the
Lower Cretaceous of eastern Utah. Hunteria 2(10) pp:1-16.

Bambiraptor Burnham, Derstler, Currie, Bakker, Zhou & Ostrom 2000
B. feinbergi   Burnham, Derstler, Currie, Bakker, Zhou & Ostrom 2000
Refs: Burnham, Derstler, Currie, Bakker, Zhou & Ostrom, 2000 Remarkable new
birdlike dinosaur (Theropoda: Maniraptora) from the Upper Cretaceous of
Montana. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 13 pp:1-14

Adasaurus Barsbold 1977
A. mongoliensis Barsbold 1983
Refs: I don't have the exact references.

Deinonychus Ostrom 1969
D. antirrhopus Ostrom 1969
Refs: Ostrom 1969a Osteology of Deinonychus antirrhopus, an unusual theropod
from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana. Peabody Museum of Natural History,
Bullettin 30 pp:1-165;
Ostrom 1969b A new theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana.
Postilla 128 pp:1-17;
Ostrom 1974 The pectoral girdle and forelimb function of Deinonychus
(Reptilia:Saurischia) a correction Postilla 165 pp:11;
Ostrom 1976 On a new specimen of the Lower Cretaceous Theropod dinosaur
Deinonychus antirrhopus Breviora 439 pp:1-21;
Brinkman, Cifelli, Czaplewski 1998 First occurrence of Deinonychus
antirrhopus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Antlers Formation (Lower
Cretaceous: Aptian-Albian) of Oklahoma Bulletin 146 pp:27;
Witmer & Maxwell 1996 The skull of Deinonychus (Dinosauria:Theropoda): new
insights and implications SVP 16,73A.

Sinornithosaurus Xu, Wang & Wu 1999
S. milleni Xu, Wang & Wu 1999
Refs: Xu, Wang & Wu 1999 A dromaeosaurid dinosaur with a filamentous
integument from the Yixian Formation of China Nature 401 pp: 262-266.

Saurornitholestes Sues 1978
S. langsdoni Sues 1978
Refs: Sues 1978 A new small theropod dinosaur from the Judith River
Formation (Campanian) of Alberta Canada. Zoological Journal of the Linnean
Society 62 pp: 381-400;
Sues 1977 Dentaries of a small theropods from the Judith River Formation
(Campanian) of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Earth Sciences 14 pp:587-592.

Variraptor Le Loeuff & Buffetaut 1998
V. mechinorum Le Loeuff & Buffetaut 1998
Refs: Le Loeuff & Buffetaut 1998 A new Dromaeosaurid theropod from the Upper
Cretaceous of southern France Oryctos 1 pp:105-112.

Pyroraptor Taquet & Allain 2000
P. olympius Taquet & Allain 2000
Refs: Taquet & Allain A new genus of Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda)
from the Upper Cretaceous of France SVP 20(2) pp:404-407 June 2000.

Velociraptor Osborn 1924
V. mongoliensis Osborn 1924
Refs: Sues 1977 The skull of Velociraptor mongoliensis, a small Cretaceous
theropod dinosaur from Mongolia. Palaontologische Zeitschrift 51 pp:
173-184;
Norell & Makoviky 1997 Important features of the dromaeosaur skeleton:
information from a new specimen. American Museum Novitates 3215 pp: 1-28;
Norel & Makovicky 1999 Important features of the Dromaeosaurid skeleton II:
Information from newly collected specimens of Velociraptor mongoliensis;
Norell 1997 A Velociraptor wishbone. Nature 389 pp:447;
Barsbold & Osmolska 1999 The skull of Velociraptor (Theropoda) from the Late
Cretaceous of Mongolia Acta Palaeontologia Polonica 44(2) pp:189-219.

Megaraptor Novas 1998
M. namunhuaiquii Novas 1998
Refs: Novas 1998 Megaraptor namnhuaiquii gen. et sp. nov. a large-clawed,
Late Cretaceous Theropod from Patagonia SVP 18 pp: 4-9.

Velociraptorinae indet. Csiki & Grigorescu 1998
Refs: Csiki & Grigorescu 1998 Small Theropoda from the Late Cretaceous of
the Hateg Basin (Western Romania) an unexpected diversity at the top of the
food chain Oryctos 1 pp: 87-104.

Ornithodesmus Seeley 1887
O. cluniculus Seeley 1887
Refs: Stafford & Milner 1993 Ornithodesmus a Maniraptoran Theropod dinosaur
from the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight England Paleontology 36(2)
pp: 425-437.

Other probable Dromaeosaurs:
Ozraptor subotaii, and Paronychodon portucalensis

About general interest in Dromaeosauridae there are the following refs:

Ostrom 1990 Dromaeosauridae in "The Dinosauria" Weishampel, Dodson &
Osmolska, University of California Press Berkeley pp:269-279.

Rauhut &Werner 1995 First record of the family Dromaeosauridae
(Dinosauria:Theropoda) in the Cretaceous of Gondwana (Wadi Milk Formation,
northern Sudan) Palaontologische Zeitschrift 69 pp: 475-489.

Unwin, Perle, & Trueman 1995 Protoceratops and Velociraptor preserved in
association: evidence fro predatory behavior in Dromaeosaurid dinosaurs SVP
15,57A.

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