a paravian theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania.
Pronunciation: ee-LOP-tuh-rix
Meaning: Marsh wing
Author/s: Andrews (
1913)
Synonyms: Balaur bondoc? (Csiki
et al., 2010)
First Discovery: Brasov, Romania
Discovery Chart Position: #104
Elopteryx nopcsai
(Nopcsa's Marsh Wing)Etymology
Elopteryx is derived from the Ancient Greek "helos" (marsh) and "pteryx" (wing).
The
species epithet,
nopcsai, honours Hungarian palaeontologist Franz Nopcsa von Felsö-Szilvás.
• Andrews CW (1913) "On some bird remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Transylvania".
Geological Magazine, 5: 193–196.
• Lambrecht K (1929) "Mesozoische und tertiäre Vogelreste aus Siebenbürgen".
Comptes-Rendus Xe Congres International de Zoologie, Budapest, section 8, 1262-1275.
• Harrison CJO and Walker CA (August 1975) "
The Bradycnemidae, a new family of owls from the Upper Cretaceous of Romania".
Palaeontology, 18(3): 563-570
• Paul GS (1988) "
Predatory Dinosaurs of the World".
• Weishampel DB, Grigorescu D and Norman DB (1991) "
The dinosaurs of Transylvania".
National Geographic Research and Exploration, 7(2): 196–215.
• Le Loeuff J, Buffetaut E, Mechin P and Mechin-Salessy A (1992) "The first record of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs (Saurischia, Theropoda) in the Maastrichtian of southern Europe: palaeobiogeographical implications".
Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 163: 337–343.
• Buffetaut E, Le Loeuff J, Cavin L, Duffaud S, Gheerbrant E, Laurent Y, Martin M, Rage J-C, Tong H and Vasse D (1997) "Les vertébrés continentaux du Crétacé supérieur du Sud de la France: un aperçu sur des découvertes récentes" (pdf).
Geobios, 30 (supp. 1): 101–108. DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(97)80015-0.
• Le Loeuff J and Buffetaut E (1998) "
A new dromaeosaurid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Southern France".
Oryctos, 1: 105-111.
• Kessler E, Grigorescu G and Csiki Z (2005) "
Elopteryx revisited - a new bird-like specimen from the Maastrichtian of the Hateg Basin (Romania)".
Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae, 5: 249-258.
• Mayr G, Codrea V, Solomon A, Bordeianu M and Smith, T (2019) "A well-preserved pelvis from the Maastrichtian of Romania suggests that the enigmatic
Gargantuavis is neither an ornithurine bird nor an insular endemic".
Cretaceous Research, 106: 104271. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104271.
• Stoicescu V, Codrea VA, Bordeianu M and Solomon AA (2024) "
Elopteryx at Nalat-Vad: new theropod material described from the Hateg Basin (Romania)".
North-Western Journal of Zoology, 20(1): 73–80.
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