Soroavisaurus
Soroavisaurus Temporal range: Maastrichtian
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Avialae |
Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
Family: | †Avisauridae |
Genus: | †Soroavisaurus Chiappe 1993 |
Species: | †S. australis
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Binomial name | |
†Soroavisaurus australis Chiappe 1993
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Soroavisaurus is a genus of enantiornithine birds related to Avisaurus. It lived during the Late Cretaceous of Argentina. The only known species, S. australis, is known from fossils collected from the Lecho Formation (Maastrichtian age) of Estancia , in the southern tip of the province of Salta, Argentina. The specimens are in the collection of the Fundación-Instituto Miguel Lillo, Tucumán. They are cataloged as PVL-4690, a 46.9 mm — long left tarsometatarsus, and PVL-4048, which includes another left tarsometatarsus, 51.5mm long and associated with the whole hallux, or digit I, and four intermediate phalanges. PVL-4048 was previously described as "Avisaurus sp." (see Avisaurus).[1]
References[]
- ^ Chiappe, Luis M. (1993) "Enantiornithine (Aves) Tarsometatarsi from the Cretaceous Lecho Formation of Northwestern Argentina." "American Museum Novitates" December 27, 1993 Number 3083, 27pp.
Categories:
- Avisaurids
- Bird genera
- Maastrichtian life
- Cretaceous birds of South America
- Late Cretaceous animals of South America
- Cretaceous Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Lecho Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 1993
- Taxa named by Luis M. Chiappe
- Prehistoric bird stubs