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Patagonykus puertai
Taxonomy
Patagonykus puertai was named by Novas (1994). Its type specimen is PVPH 37, a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Patagonykus type, Sierra del Portezuelo [MCF], which is in a Turonian/Coniacian fluvial sandstone in the Portezuelo Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Patagonykus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1994 | Patagonykus puertai Novas |
| 1996 | Patagonykus puertai Chiappe p. 540 |
| 1996 | Patagonykus puertai Chiappe et al. p. 559 |
| 1996 | Patagonykus puertai Novas pp. 676-677 figs. 2-14 |
| 1997 | Patagonykus puertai Novas p. 141 |
| 1999 | Patagonykus puertai Norell and Makovicky p. 35 |
| 2002 | Patagonykus puertai Chiappe p. 452 |
| 2002 | Patagonykus puertai Chiappe et al. p. 90 |
| 2004 | Patagonykus puertai Padian p. 211 |
| 2006 | Patagonykus puertai Martínez and Novas p. 243 |
| 2006 | Patagonykus puertai Novas et al. p. 63 |
| 2007 | Patagonykus puertai Martinelli and Vera p. 12 |
| 2007 | Patagonykus puertai Turner et al. p. 24 |
| 2009 | Patagonykus puertai Alifanov and Barsbold pp. 94-95 |
| 2009 | Patagonykus puertai Longrich and Currie p. 240 |
| 2009 | Patagonykus puertai Salgado et al. p. 75 |
| 2009 | Patagonykus puertai Turner et al. p. 3 |
| 2010 | Patagonykus puertai Xu et al. p. 14 fig. 8 |
| 2011 | Patagonykus puertai Goianechini and Apesteguía p. 171 |
| 2011 | Patagonykus puertai Porfiri et al. p. 111 |
| 2012 | Patagonykus puertai Candeiro and Harris p. 74 |
| 2012 | Patagonykus puertai Porfiri et al. p. R56 |
| 2013 | Patagonykus puertai Novas et al. p. 188 |
| 2013 | Patagonykus puertai Xu et al. p. 26 |
| 2014 | Patagonykus puertai Delcourt and Grillo p. 312 |
| 2021 | Patagonykus puertai Novas et al. p. 2743 |
| 2023 | Patagonykus puertai Averianov et al. p. 68 |
| 2023 | Patagonykus puertai Kubo et al. p. 13 |
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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.
†Patagonykus puertai Novas 1994
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| L. M. Chiappe et al. 2002 | Weak hyposphene-hypantrum; thoracic postzygapophyses vetntrally curved and with a tongue-shaped lateral border; tubercle on the caudal base of the neural arch of thoracic, synsacral, and caudal vertebrae; coracoidal shaft strongly convex ventrally and concave dorsally, with distinct ridge on ventral surface; tranversely narrow humeral articular facet of coracoid; ventral tubercle of humerus proximally truncated; subcircular humeral condyle; humerus with sharp, ventral epicondyle, ventrally projected; olecranon not as large as in Mononykus; first phalanx of digit I with proximal articulation narrower than in Mononykus and Shuvuuia, and with prominent ventral ridge on its lateral margin; pubic foot, short, lateral projection between cnemial crest and lateral articular area of tibiotarsus; ascending process not indented. |
Measurements
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| References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Turonian to the top of the Early/Lower Coniacian or 93.50000 to 85.80000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Turonian - Early/Lower Coniacian | Argentina (Neuquén) | Theropoda indet. (type locality: 48461) |