Achillesaurus manazzonei Martinelli and Vera 2007 (coelurosaur)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Alvarezsauridae

Alternative combination: Achillesaurus manazonnei

Full reference: A. G. Martinelli and E. I. Vera. 2007. Achillesaurus manzzonei, a new alvarezsaurid theropod (Dinosauria) from the Late Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa Formation, Río Negro Province, Argentina. Zootaxa 1582:1-17

Belongs to Achillesaurus according to A. G. Martinelli and E. I. Vera 2007

See also Agnolin et al. 2012, Averianov et al. 2023, Cruzado-Caballero et al. 2016, Delcourt and Grillo 2014, Díaz-Martínez et al. 2018, Ezcurra and Méndez 2009, Filippi et al. 2016, Gianechini et al. 2011, Longrich and Currie 2009, Méndez et al. 2015, Novas et al. 2013 and Xu et al. 2010

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MACN-PV-RN 1116, a set of postcrania. Its type locality is Paso Córdova [Bajo de la Carpa], which is in a Santonian terrestrial sandstone in the Bajo de la Carpa Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Paso Córdova [Bajo de la Carpa]

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