Paraxenisaurus normalensis Serrano-Brañas et al. 2020 (ornithomimosaur)

Reptilia - Saurischia - Deinocheiridae

Full reference: C. I. Serrano-Brañas, B. Espinosa-Chávez, S. A. Maccracken, C. Gutiérrez-Blando, C. León-Dávilae and J. F. Ventura. 2020. Paraxenisaurus normalensis, a large deinocheirid ornithomimosaur from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 101:102610

Belongs to Paraxenisaurus according to C. I. Serrano-Brañas et al. 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BENC 2/2-001, a set of postcrania (proximal manual phalanx II-2 or III-3, partial right tarsals (astragalus and calcaneum) and partial left and right peses that include the shaft and distal end o). Its type locality is Las Pedreras (MUDE Loc. 13), which is in a Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Cerro del Pueblo Formation of Mexico.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Las Pedreras (MUDE Loc. 13)

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