road cut northwest of La Grita (Jurassic of Venezuela)

Also known as Tachiraptor type

Where: Táchira, Venezuela (8.2° N, 72.0° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° S, 42.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: La Quinta Formation, Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• lower third of the ‘middle interval’ of the La Quinta Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green siltstone

• "Greenish siltstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. C. Langer, A. D. Rincón, J. Ramezani, A. Solórzano, and O. W. M. Rauhut. 2014. New dinosaur (Theropoda, stem-Averostra) from the earliest Jurassic of the La Quinta Formation, Venezuelan Andes. Royal Society Open Science 1(2):1-15 [AD. Rincon/AD. Rincon/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174849: authorized by Ascanio Rincon, entered by Ascanio Rincon on 29.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Tachiraptor admirabilis n. gen. n. sp.
Tachiraptor admirabilis n. gen. n. sp. Langer et al. 2014 neotheropod
IVIC-P-2867, 2868