Lamarqueavis Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Avialae |
Family: | †Cimolopterygidae |
Genus: | †Lamarqueavis Agnolin, 2010 |
Type species | |
†Lamarqueavis australis Agnolin, 2010
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Lamarqueavis is an extinct genus of ornithuran dinosaurs from the family Cimolopterygidae known from Late Cretaceous-aged rocks from Argentina, Canada, and the United States. The type species, L. australis, was named in 2010 and is based on the holotype MML 207, a partial right coracoid found in the Allen Formation, Argentina.[1] Two other species, L. minima, based on the holotype UCMP 53976, a right coracoid found in the Lance Formation, Wyoming,[2] and L. petra, based on the holotype AMNH 21911, a left coracoid also found in the Lance Formation, Wyoming,[3] were transferred over from Cimolopteryx to Lamarqueavis in 2010.[1] A third unnamed species is known from the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada.[3]
References
- ^ a b Federico L. Agnolin (2010). "An avian coracoid from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina". Stvdia Geologica Salmanticensia. 46 (2): 99–119.
- ^ Brodkorb, P. (1963). Birds from the Upper Cretaceous of Wyoming. Proceedings of the XIII International Ornithological Congress 55-70
- ^ a b Hope, S. (2002). The Mesozoic radiation of Neornithes. Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. University of California Press, Berkeley 339-388