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Neuquenornis volans
Taxonomy
Neuquenornis volans was named by Chiappe and Calvo (1994). Its type specimen is MUCHPv-142, a partial skeleton (articulated skeleton including posterior portion of skull and partial axial, forelimb, and hindlimb elements), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Boca del Sapo, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, which is in a Santonian fluvial-deltaic sandstone in the Bajo de la Carpa Formation of Argentina.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1994 | Neuquenornis volans Chiappe and Calvo p. 232 |
| 1995 | Neuquenornis volans Sanz et al. p. 18 fig. 15 |
| 2002 | Neuquenornis volans Chiappe p. 457 |
| 2002 | Neuquenornis volans Varricchio |
| 2011 | Neuquenornis volans Lawver et al. |
| 2011 | Neuquenornis volans Turner et al. p. 44 |
| 2013 | Neuquenornis volans Zhou et al. |
| 2015 | Neuquenornis volans Méndez et al. p. 28 |
| 2016 | Neuquenornis volans Cruzado-Caballero et al. p. 53 |
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†Neuquenornis volans Chiappe and Calvo 1994
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| L. M. Chiappe and J. O. Calvo 1994 | Neuquenornis volans is diagnosed as an enantiornithine avisaurid (see Chiappe, 1992a and below for an emended diagnosis of Avisauridae) and is separable from all other members of the family by having a tarsometatarsus that is much more gracile. It also differs from all other known Enantiornithes in having a posterior trochanter of femur wide and winglike; lateral border of the distal end of femur less projected caudally; furcula laminar, laterally compressed, with the cranial border projecting outwards; major and minor metacarpals subequal; and much less prominent lateral grooves of thoracic vertebral bodies. |
Measurements
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| References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875 | |||||