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    fossils found in Late Cretaceous rocks of Romania. The single species, Elopteryx nopcsai, was known only from very incomplete material until new specimens...
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    presumed gigantic prehistoric owl in 1975. It was previously included in Elopteryx nopcsai and indeed the holotypes of both were believed to be from the same...
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    after the baron in 2007. Other extinct animals named after him include Elopteryx nopcsai, Tethysaurus nopcsai, Hyposaurus nopcsai, and Mesophis nopcsai...
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    specimens had initially been assigned to the supposed pelecaniform bird Elopteryx nopcsai. The generic name, Bradycneme, comes from the Ancient Greek bradys...
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    modern birds, but the 2019 discovery of a pelvis identified as cf. Elopteryx nopcsai from what was Hateg Island (present-day Romania) shows several primitive...
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  • related to the species Elopteryx nopcsai from the Maastrichtian strata at the Nălaț-Vad locality (Romania), interpret E. nopcsai as a probable secondarily...
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    Becklesius nopcsai, a paramacellodid lizard Bicuspidon hatzegiensis, a polyglyphanodont lizard Bradycneme draculae, an alvarezsaurid Elopteryx nopcsai, an avialan...
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  • caenagnathid, once thought to be a Mongolian species of Chirostenotes. †ElopteryxElopteryx nopcsai 70 Ma Sanpetru Formation, Hunedoara County, Romania A largely...
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    rather inexplicably allied Argillornis with the enigmatic Mesozoic Elopteryx nopcsai – a sort of "wastebin taxon" for Late Cretaceous maniraptoran theropod...
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    26–36, ISSN 1454-6914 Kessler, E.; Grigorescu, D.; Csiki, Z. (2005), "Elopteryx revisited - A new bird-like specimen from the Maastrichtian of the Hațeg...
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    megalosaurid. 1913 Roy Chapman Andrews described the new genus and species Elopteryx nopcsai. Initially thought to be a bone fragment from a bird, it was later...
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