- Aniksosaurus
Taxobox|
name = "Aniksosaurus"
image_width = 250px
image_caption =
status = fossil
fossil_range =Late Cretaceous
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Sauropsid a
superordo =Dinosaur ia
ordo =Saurischia
subordo =Theropoda
unranked_familia =Coelurosauria
genus = "Aniksosaurus"
binomial = "Aniksosaurus darwini"
binomial_authority = Martinez & Novas, 2006"Aniksosaurus" was a
genus ofdinosaur from what is now present-dayChubut Province ,Argentina . It was atheropod , specifically acoelurosaur , which lived in the middleCretaceous period (Cenomanian toTuronian stages, around 95 million years ago). Thetype species , "Aniksosaurus darwini", was formally described by Martínez and Novas in 2006; the name was first coined in 1995. The specific epithet honorsCharles Darwin . The type remains were found in the lowerBajo Barreal Formation ofPatagonia . "Aniksosaurus" was around two meters in length. The paleontologists describe "Aniksosaurus" as "more derived than some basal coelurosaurians such as compsognathids, "Ornitholestes ", and coelurids", but less advanced than later coelurosaurs such as "Tyrannosaurus " and "Oviraptor ".References
*Martínez, R.D., and Novas, F.E. (2006). "Aniksosaurus darwini" gen. et sp. nov., a new coelurosaurian theropod from the early Late Cretaceous of central Patagonia, Argentina." "Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales", n.s. 8(2): 243-259.
External links
* [http://dml.cmnh.org/2001Jan/msg00511.html Mickey Mortimer] and [http://dml.cmnh.org/2001Jan/msg00521.html Josh B. Smith] on the genus.
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