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Yungavolucris
Taxonomy
Yungavolucris was named by Chiappe (1993).
It was assigned to Enantiornithes by Chiappe (1993); and to Enantiornithes by Chiappe and Calvo (1994) and Sanz et al. (1995).
It was assigned to Enantiornithes by Chiappe (1993); and to Enantiornithes by Chiappe and Calvo (1994) and Sanz et al. (1995).
Species
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1993 | Yungavolucris Chiappe p. 4 |
1994 | Yungavolucris Chiappe and Calvo p. 238 fig. 8 |
1995 | Yungavolucris Sanz et al. p. 18 fig. 15 |
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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L. M. Chiappe 1993 | Enantiomithine bird with short and broad tarsometatarsus possessing the following autapomorphies: distal end much broader than proximal end; broad, dorsoplantarly compressed, and pulleylike trochlea of metatarsal II; distal end of metatarsal III laterally curved; metatarsal IV equal in length to metatarsal III; prominent dorsal ridge between distal halves of metatarsals II and III. |