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Philovenator curriei
Taxonomy
Philovenator curriei was named by Xu et al. (2012). Its type specimen is IVPP P 10597, a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is "North Canyon" locality, Bayan Mandahu, which is in a Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Wulansuhai Formation of China.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2012 | Philovenator curriei Gao et al. p. 3 |
| 2012 | Philovenator curriei Xu et al. p. 141 figs. 1-2 |
| 2017 | Philovenator curriei Evans et al. p. 822 |
| 2017 | Philovenator curriei van der Reest and Currie p. 934 |
| 2021 | Philovenator curriei Sellés et al. p. 7 |
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†Philovenator curriei Xu et al. 2012
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| X. Xu et al. 2012 | A small troodontid that can be distinguished from other known members of the group by the presence of the following autapomorphies: a prominent process on the medial side of the femoral shaft slightly proximal to the distal end, a sheet-like tibial cnemial crest that expands significantly anteriorly, astragalo-calcaneal hemicondyles that are deep anteroposteriorly and separated by a deep and narrow groove, a proportionally extremely long and slender tarsometatarsus (tarsometatarsus/femur length ratio 1.25, tarsometetarsus length/width ratio 22.0). anteroposterior depth much greater than transverse width at the mid-shaft of the tarsometatarsus, and a prominent, elongate posterior flange that extends along most of the length of metatarsal IV and is about equal in depth to the metatarsal shaft. |
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| References: Marsh 1875, Holtz et al. 2000 | |||||