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Gettyia gloriae
Taxonomy
Avisaurus gloriae was named by Varricchio and Chiappe (1995). Its type specimen is MOR 553E/6.19.91.64, a limb element (right tarsometatarsus), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Jack's Birthday Site, MOR TM-068 (bone layer), which is in a Campanian lacustrine mudstone in the Two Medicine Formation of Montana.
It was recombined as Gettyia gloriae by Atterholt et al. (2018).
It was recombined as Gettyia gloriae by Atterholt et al. (2018).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1995 | Avisaurus gloriae Sanz et al. p. 18 fig. 15 |
| 1995 | Avisaurus gloriae Varricchio and Chiappe p. 201 fig. 1 |
| 2001 | Avisaurus gloriae Horner et al. p. 9 |
| 2004 | Avisaurus gloriae Padian p. 212 |
| 2010 | Avisaurus gloriae Zanno et al. p. 181 |
| 2018 | Gettyia gloriae Atterholt et al. |
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†Gettyia gloriae Varricchio and Chiappe 1995
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (Montana) | Avisaurus sp. (type locality: 22689) |