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Brodavis varneri
Taxonomy
Baptornis varneri was named by Martin and Cordes-Person (2007). Its type specimen is SDSM 68430, a partial skeleton (partial postcranial skeleton including vertebrae, ribs, and an almost complete right hindlimb), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is SDSM locality V9131, which is in a Campanian marine horizon in the Pierre Shale Formation of South Dakota.
It was recombined as Brodavis varneri by Bell and Chiappe (2016).
It was recombined as Brodavis varneri by Bell and Chiappe (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2007 | Baptornis varneri Martin and Cordes-Person p. 229 |
| 2013 | Baptornis varneri O'Connor and Zelenkov |
| 2014 | Baptornis varneri O'Connor et al. |
| 2014 | Baptornis varneri Wang et al. |
| 2016 | Brodavis varneri Bell and Chiappe |
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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.
†Brodavis varneri Martin and Cordes-Person 2007
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. E. Martin and A. Cordes-Person 2007 | A baptomithid with elongate cervical vertebrae; with head and tuberculum of ribs well separated; with antitrochanter of pelvis indistinct, open acetabulum, acetabulum with vertical sides, ischium smoothly merging with antitrochanter, ischium with indistinct anterior fossa; with femur possessing broad, smooth popliteal fossa, wide and deep intercondylar fossa, promincnt in- ternal condyle; tibio(urslis with expandcd proximal at1iculation. long straight I1bulllr crest extending at least half the length of thc shaft, und shallow, wide facet for articulation with libuln; and tar- sometntanHlS with proximal foramina, intertrochlear notchcs ex- tending proximally to neal' the midpoint of shaft and with midpoint or shaft narrowing to a "waist." Some characters may be due to preservation, and others may be altered once the range of vlltialion becomes known following the discovery of additional specimens. |
Measurements
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| References: Marsh 1875, Kiessling 2004, Benton 1983, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Middle 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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| Middle Campanian | USA (South Dakota) | Baptornis varneri (type locality: 85236) |