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Aniksosaurus darwini
Taxonomy
Aniksosaurus darwini was named by Martínez and Novas (2006). Its type specimen is MDT-PV 1/48, a set of limb elements, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cañadón Las Horquetas, estancia Laguna Palacios, which is in a Cenomanian/Turonian crevasse splay sandstone/tuff in the Bajo Barreal Formation of Argentina.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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2006 | Aniksosaurus darwini Martínez and Novas p. 245 figs. 2-13 |
2010 | Aniksosaurus darwini Choiniere et al. p. 1792 |
2011 | Aniksosaurus darwini Ibiricu et al. p. 339 |
2013 | Aniksosaurus darwini Casal et al. p. 572 |
2013 | Aniksosaurus darwini Ibiricu et al. p. 1 |
2013 | Aniksosaurus darwini Novas et al. p. 188 |
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†Aniksosaurus darwini Martínez and Novas 2006
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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R. D. Martínez and F. E. Novas 2006 | Small theropod with the following autapomorphies: cervical vertebrae with the neural arch pedicels unusually deep (i.e., 2.5 times the height of the centrum); wide neural canal on cervical vertebrae; cranial caudals with ventral saggital keel; manual ungual phalanges robust; iliac brevis shelf lateroventrally expanded; caudolateral surface of proximal femur with strong depression and rugosities presumably for the attachment for M. ischiotrochantericus; metatarsal IV and its correspondent digit transversely narrow. |