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Pectinodon bakkeri

Reptilia - Troodontidae

Taxonomy
Pectinodon bakkeri was named by Carpenter (1982). Its type specimen is UCM 38445, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bushy Tailed Blowout, which is in a Lancian terrestrial shale in the Lance Formation of Wyoming.

It was synonymized subjectively with Troodon formosus by Currie (1987), Paul (1988), Currie et al. (1990), Varricchio (1997), Peng et al. (2001) and Makovicky and Norell (2004); it was recombined as Troodon bakkeri by Olshevsky (1992) and Olshevsky (2000).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1982Pectinodon bakkeri Carpenter
1985Pectinodon bakkeri Breithaupt p. 169
1992Troodon bakkeri Olshevsky p. 148
2000Troodon bakkeri Olshevsky p. 98
2008Pectinodon bakkeri Longrich p. 140
2011Pectinodon bakkeri Zanno et al. p. 2
2013Pectinodon bakkeri Larson and Currie p. 9
2014Pectinodon bakkeri Williamson and Brusatte p. 17
2015Pectinodon bakkeri Currie and Koppelhus p. 626

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Theropoda()
Tetanurae
Coelurosauria()
Maniraptora
Paraves
infraorderDeinonychosauria
familyTroodontidae
genusPectinodon
speciesbakkeri

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.

Pectinodon bakkeri Carpenter 1982
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available