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Patagonykus puertai

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Patagonykus puertai was named by Novas (1994). Its type specimen is PVPH 37, a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Patagonykus type, Sierra del Portezuelo [MCF], which is in a Turonian/Coniacian fluvial sandstone in the Portezuelo Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Patagonykus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Patagonykus puertai Novas
1996Patagonykus puertai Chiappe p. 540
1996Patagonykus puertai Chiappe et al. p. 559
1996Patagonykus puertai Novas pp. 676-677 figs. 2-14
1997Patagonykus puertai Novas p. 141
1999Patagonykus puertai Norell and Makovicky p. 35
2002Patagonykus puertai Chiappe p. 452
2002Patagonykus puertai Chiappe et al. p. 90
2004Patagonykus puertai Padian p. 211
2006Patagonykus puertai Martínez and Novas p. 243
2006Patagonykus puertai Novas et al. p. 63
2007Patagonykus puertai Martinelli and Vera p. 12
2007Patagonykus puertai Turner et al. p. 24
2009Patagonykus puertai Alifanov and Barsbold pp. 94-95
2009Patagonykus puertai Longrich and Currie p. 240
2009Patagonykus puertai Salgado et al. p. 75
2009Patagonykus puertai Turner et al. p. 3
2010Patagonykus puertai Xu et al. p. 14 fig. 8
2011Patagonykus puertai Goianechini and Apesteguía p. 171
2011Patagonykus puertai Porfiri et al. p. 111
2012Patagonykus puertai Candeiro and Harris p. 74
2012Patagonykus puertai Porfiri et al. p. R56
2013Patagonykus puertai Novas et al. p. 188
2013Patagonykus puertai Xu et al. p. 26
2014Patagonykus puertai Delcourt and Grillo p. 312
2021Patagonykus puertai Novas et al. p. 2743
2023Patagonykus puertai Averianov et al. p. 68
2023Patagonykus puertai Kubo et al. p. 13

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
infraorderAlvarezsauria
—Alvarezsauroidea()
genusPatagonykus
speciespuertai

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Patagonykus puertai Novas 1994
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
L. M. Chiappe et al. 2002Weak hyposphene-hypantrum; thoracic postzygapophyses vetntrally curved and with a tongue-shaped lateral border; tubercle on the caudal base of the neural arch of thoracic, synsacral, and caudal vertebrae; coracoidal shaft strongly convex ventrally and concave dorsally, with distinct ridge on ventral surface; tranversely narrow humeral articular facet of coracoid; ventral tubercle of humerus proximally truncated; subcircular humeral condyle; humerus with sharp, ventral epicondyle, ventrally projected; olecranon not as large as in Mononykus; first phalanx of digit I with proximal articulation narrower than in Mononykus and Shuvuuia, and with prominent ventral ridge on its lateral margin; pubic foot, short, lateral projection between cnemial crest and lateral articular area of tibiotarsus; ascending process not indented.