| Description | Talarurus (TAL-ə-ROOR-əs; meaning "basket tail" or "wicker tail") is a genus of ankylosaurid thyreophoran dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about 102 million to 86 million years ago. The first remains of Talarurus were discovered in 1948 and later described by the Russian paleontologist Evgeny Maleev with the type species T. plicatospineus. It is known from multiple yet sparce specimens, making it one of the most well known ankylosaurines, along with Pinacosaurus. Elements from the specimens consists of some bones from the body, however, five skulls have been discovered and assigned to the genus, although the first two were very fragmented.
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| Rank | genus |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Ankylosauridae : Talarurus |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Ankylosauridae : Talarurus |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Scientific Name | Talarurus Maleev, 1952 |
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| Name Published In | Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, (N. S.), 87 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Talarurus | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated without evidence | Maleev, 1952 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Thyreophora | stated without evidence | Huene, 1958 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Nodosaurinae | stated without evidence | Huene, 1959 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Nodosauridae | stated with evidence | Tatarinov, 1964 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Nodosauridae | stated without evidence | Kuhn, 1964 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Nodosauridae | implied | Romer, 1966 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated without evidence | Swinton, 1970 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated with evidence | Coombs, 1978 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated without evidence | Coombs, 1978 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Nodosauridae | stated without evidence | Bonaparte, 1978 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated with evidence | Sereno, 1986 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated without evidence | Coombs, 1986 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Ankylosaurinae | stated without evidence | Tumanova, 1987 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated without evidence | Barsbold, 1997 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated with evidence | Tumanova, 2000 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Syrmosaurinae | stated without evidence | Ford, 2000 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated without evidence | Barrett, 2001 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Ankylosaurinae | stated without evidence | Vickaryous et al., 2001 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated without evidence | Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola, 2003 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Ankylosaurinae | stated with evidence | Vickaryous et al., 2004 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated with evidence | Lü et al., 2007 | | Talarurus | genus | belongs to Ankylosaurinae | stated with evidence | Han et al., 2014 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 101 - 84 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 101 - 84 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Diet | herbivore (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Reproduction | oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Ontogeny | accretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | E. A. Maleev. 1952. Noviy ankilosavr is verchnego mela Mongolii [A new ankylosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 87(2):273-276 |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talarurus |
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| Maleev E. A. (1952) Noviy ankilosavr is verchnego mela Mongolii [A new ankylosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia], Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 87 2, 273-276 |
| Maleev E. A. (1956) Pantsyrnye dinosavry verchnego mela Mongolii (Semeustvo Ankylosauridae) [The Upper Cretaceous armored dinosaurs of Mongolia (family Ankylosauridae)], Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademiy Nauk SSSR 62, 51-91 |
| Tatarinov L. P. (1964) Nadotryad Dinosauria. Dinozavry [Superorder Dinosauria. Dinosaurs], Osnovy Paleontologii [Fundamentals of Paleontology] 12, 523-589 |
| Romer A. S. (1966) , Vertebrate Paleontology, 3rd edition, 1-468 |
| Swinton W. E. (1970) , The Dinosaurs, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1-331 |
| Maryanska T. (1977) Ankylosauridae (Dinosauria) from Mongolia, Palaeontologia Polonica 37, 85-151 |
| Rozhdestvensky A. K. (1977) The study of dinosaurs in Asia, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 20, 102-119 |
| Bonaparte J. F. (1978) El Mesozoico de America de Sur y sus Tetrapodos [The Mesozoic of South America and its tetrapods], Opera Lilloana 26, 1-596 |
| Coombs W. P. (1978) The families of the ornithischian dinosaur order Ankylosauria, Palaeontology 21 1, 143-170 |
| Sereno P. C. (1986) Phylogeny of the bird-hipped dinosaurs (order Ornithischia), National Geographic Research 2 2, 234-256 |
| Tumanova T. A. (1987) Pantsirnyye dinozavry Mongolii [The armored dinosaurs of Mongolia], Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 32, 1-80 |
| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| Ford T. L. (2000) A review of ankylosaur osteoderms from New Mexico and a preliminary review of ankylosaur armor, Dinosaurs of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17, 157-176 |
| Tumanova T. A. (2000) Armoured dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Mongolia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 517-532 |
| Vickaryous M. K., Russell A. P., et al (2001) A new ankylosaurid (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of China, with comments on ankylosaurian relationships, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 38, 1767-1780 |
| Garcia G., Pereda-Suberbiola X. (2003) A new species of Struthiosaurus (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Villeveyrac (southern France), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 1, 156-165 |
| Vickaryous M. K., Maryanska T., et al (2004) Ankylosauria, The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 363-392 |
| Lü J., Ji Q., et al (2007) A new species of the ankylosaurid dinosaur Crichtonsaurus (Ankylosauridae: Ankylosauria) from the Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China, Acta Geologica Sinica 81 6, 883-897 |
| Parsons W. L., Parsons K. M. (2009) A new ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation of central Montana, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 46, 721-738 doi:10.1139/E09-45 |
| Arbour V. M., Burns M. E., et al (2014) A new ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Kirtlandian) of New Mexico with implications for ankylosaurid diversity in the Upper Cretaceous of western North America, PLoS ONE 9 9, e108804:1-14 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0108804 |
| Arbour V. M., Currie P. J., et al (2014) The ankylosaurid dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot and Nemegt formations of Mongolia, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172 3, 631-652 doi:10.1111/zoj.12185 |
| Han F., Zheng W., et al (2014) A new basal ankylosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning Province, China, PLoS ONE 9 8, e104551:1-17 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0104551 |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, (N. S.), 87 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
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