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Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis Reig 1963

Description

Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis Reig, 1963 (fig. 12G–H)

AGE: Late Carnian, Late Triassic (Rogers et al., 1993, adjusted for the new Triassic timescale of Muttoni et al., 2004).

OCCURRENCE: Ischigualasto Formation, Argentina.

HOLOTYPE: PVL 2566, dorsal, sacral, and caudal vertebrae, ilium, pubis, ischium, right femur, metatarsals, phalanges, left astragalus.

REFERRED MATERIAL: PVSJ 373, wellpreserved articulated skeleton, lacking skull and most cervical and caudal vertebrae; PVSJ 407, nearly complete articulated skeleton with skull and mandible.

REMARKS: See Nesbitt et al., 2009a.

KEY REFERENCES: Reig, 1963; Sereno and Novas, 1992; Novas, 1994; Sereno, 1994; Langer and Benton, 2006.

Notes

Published as part of Nesbitt, Sterling J., 2011, The Early Evolution Of Archosaurs: Relationships And The Origin Of Major Clades, pp. 1-292 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (352) on pages 51-53, DOI: 10.1206/352.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5405335

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Reig
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Saurischia
Family
Herrerasauridae
Genus
Herrerasaurus
Species
ischigualastensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis Reig, 1963 sec. Nesbitt, 2011

References

  • Reig, O. A. 1963. La presencia de dinosaurios saurisquios en los '' Estratos de Ischigualasto' ' (Mesotriasico superior) de las provincias de San Juan y La Rioja (Republico Argentina). Ameghiniana 3: 3 - 20.
  • Sereno, P. C., C. A. Forster, R. R. Rogers, and A. M. Monetta. 1993. Primitive dinosaur skeleton from Argentina and the early evolution of Dinosauria. Nature 361: 64 - 66.
  • Muttoni, G., et al. 2004. Tethyan magnetostratigraphy from Pizzi Mondello (Sicily) and correlation to the Late Triassic Newark astrochronological polarity time scale. Geological Society of America Bulletin 116: 1043 - 1058.
  • Nesbitt, S. J., M. R. Stocker, B. Small, and A. Downs. 2009 a. The osteology and relationships of Vancleavea campi (Reptilia: Archosauriformes). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157: 814 - 864.
  • Sereno, P. C., and F. E. Novas. 1992. The complete skull and skeleton of an early dinosaur. Science 258: 1137 - 1140.
  • Novas, F. E. 1994. New information on the systematics and postcranial skeleton of Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis (Theropoda: Herrerasauridae) from the Ischigualasto Formation (Upper Triassic) of Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13: 400 - 423.
  • Langer, M. C., and M. J. Benton. 2006. Early dinosaurs: a phylogenetic study. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4: 309 - 358.