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Powellvenator podocitus
Taxonomy
Powellvenator podocitus was named by Ezcurra (2017). Its type specimen is PVL 4414-1, a set of postcrania (distal end of tibia and fibula, astra- galus, calcaneum, distal tarsals 3 and 4, proximal ends of metatarsals II–IV, and most of metatarsal V from the right hin), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Quebrada de los Jachaleros, which is in a Norian fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic in the Los Colorados Formation of Argentina.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2017 | Powellvenator podocitus Ezcurra |
| 2021 | Powellvenator podocitus Müller and Garcia p. 12 |
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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.
†Powellvenator podocitus Ezcurra 2017
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. D. Ezcurra 2017 | Powellvenator podocitus is a small-sized early neotheropod that differs from other avemetatarsalians in the following combination of character-states in the holo- type PVL 4414-1 (autapomorphies indicated with an asterisk): tibia lacking an anterior diagonal tuberosity and a notch for reception of a posteromedial process on the astragalus; astragalus with an ascending process lower than the astragalar body, distinctly sigmoid (medially convex and laterally concave) posterodorsal margin*, and a rounded, dorsally projected expansion on the medial third of the dorsal margin of the bone in anterior view*; calcaneum with a laterally projected flange that occupies the entire proximodistal height of its anterolateral corner*; distal tarsal 3 with a convex anterolateral margin in proximal view*; distal tarsal 4 with a strongly convex anterior margin in proximal view; shaft of metatarsal II less than half the anteroposterior depth and transverse width of the shaft of metatarsal III*; and metatarsal III without overlap of the posteromedial surface of metatarsal IV. |
Measurements
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| Reference: Marsh 1875 | |||||