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Halszkaraptor escuilliei
Taxonomy
Halszkaraptor escuilliei was named by Cau et al. (2017). Its type specimen is MPC D-102/109, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ukhaa Tolgod (general), which is in a Campanian eolian sandstone/mudstone in the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2017 | Halszkaraptor escuilliei Cau et al. |
| 2018 | Halszkaraptor escuilliei Cau and Madzia p. 12 |
| 2021 | Halszkaraptor escuilliei Averianov and Lopatin p. 570 |
| 2023 | Halszkaraptor escuilliei Davis et al. |
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†Halszkaraptor escuilliei Cau et al. 2017
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. Cau et al. 2017 | Autapomorphies are marked by asterisks; differential diagnosis can be found in Supplementary Information. Platyrostral premaxilla that forms 32% of snout length* and bears 11 teeth*; external naris posterior to the premaxillary oral margin; rod-like jugal with an ascending process excluded from the orbital margin that forms only 10% of the postorbital bar*; rod-like ventral ramus of the postorbital; 22 presacral vertebrae; neck forms 50% of snout–sacrum length*; absence of epipophyses*; ridge-like cervical neural spines restricted to the 2nd–5th vertebrae*; postzygapophyses on cervicals 2–5 are fused medially and form single lobate processes*; pleurocoels restricted to cervicals 7–9; tuber-like neural spines in tail are restricted to the 1st–3rd vertebrae*; proximal-most chevrons large and pentagonal*; transition point in 7th–8th caudals; 3rd finger longer than 2nd; elongate pedal phalanx III-1 is 47% of the length of metatarsal III*. |
Measurements
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| References: Marsh 1875, Holtz et al. 2000 | |||||