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Yungavolucris brevipedalis
Taxonomy
Yungavolucris brevipedalis was named by Chiappe (1993). Its type specimen is PVL 4053, a limb element (nearly complete right tarsometarsus), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Estancia "El Brete" (PVL), which is in a Maastrichtian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Lecho Formation of Argentina.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1993 | Yungavolucris brevipedalis Chiappe |
1994 | Yungavolucris brevipedalis Chiappe and Calvo p. 238 fig. 8 |
1995 | Yungavolucris brevipedalis Sanz et al. p. 18 fig. 15 |
2011 | Yungavolucris brevipedalis Lawver et al. |
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†Yungavolucris brevipedalis Chiappe 1993
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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. |