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Psilopterus bachmanni

Reptilia - Gruiformes - Phorusrhacidae

Taxonomy

Patagornis bachmanni was named by Moreno and Mercerat (1891). Its type specimen is Museo de La Plata, a limb element (tarsometatarsus), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Santa Cruz Formation, which is in a Santacrucian terrestrial horizon in the Santa Cruz Formation of Argentina.

It was recombined as Psilopterus bachmanni by Alvarenga and Holfing (2003), Gould and Quitmyer (2005), Bertelli et al. (2007) and Tambussi et al. (2023).

Synonyms

Phororhacos delicatus was named by Amegino (1891).

It was synonymized subjectively with Psilopterus bachmanni by Alvarenga and Holfing (2003).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1891	Phororhacos delicatus Amegino
1891	Patagornis bachmanni Moreno and Mercerat p. 24
1933	Phororhacos delicatus Lambrecht p. 503
2003	Psilopterus bachmanni Alvarenga and Holfing p. 80
2005	Psilopterus bachmanni Gould and Quitmyer p. 205 figs. Table 2
2007	Psilopterus bachmanni Bertelli et al. p. 415 figs. Table 2
2023	Psilopterus bachmanni Tambussi et al. p. 276

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda

Rank	Name	Author
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptora
—	Paraves
class	Aves
subclass	Neornithes	Gadow 1893
—	Neognathae	(Pycraft 1900)
—	Neoaves	Sibley et al. 1988
—	Terrestrornithes
—	Telmatorae
superorder	Charadriimorphae	Huxley 1867
order	Gruiformes	Bonaparte 1854
suborder	Cariamae	Fürbringer 1888
family	Phorusrhacidae	()
subfamily	Psilopterinae	(Dolgopol de Saez 1927)
genus	Psilopterus
species	bachmanni	()

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.

†Psilopterus bachmanni Moreno and Mercerat 1891

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Invalid names: Phororhacos delicatus Amegino 1891 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteo

Entire body:

yeso

Adult length:

10 to < 100o

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10o

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10o

Architecture:

compact or denseo

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partso

Grouping:

solitaryo

Environment:

terrestrialf

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

ground dwellingf

Diet:

carnivoref

Reproduction:

oviparouso

Dispersal:

direct/internalo

Dispersal 2:

mobileo

Created:

2009-01-03 19:06:43

Modified:

2009-01-03 21:06:43

Source: f = family, o = order

References: Witmer and Rose 1991, Marsh 1875

Age range: Santacrucian or 17.50000 to 16.30000 Ma

Collections (6 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Santacrucian	17.5 - 16.3	Argentina (Santa Cruz)	Patagornis bachmanni (type locality: 27313) Psilopterus bachmanni (176564 176565 176598 176602 210153)