Tachiraptor admirabilis Langer et al. 2014 (neotheropod)

Reptilia - Theropoda

Full 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

Belongs to Tachiraptor according to M. C. Langer et al. 2014

See also Díaz-Martínez et al. 2017 and Ezcurra 2017

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: IVIC-P-2867, a limb element (right tibia). Its type locality is road cut northwest of La Grita, which is in a Hettangian terrestrial siltstone in the La Quinta Formation of Venezuela.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at road cut northwest of La Grita

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