Apatoraptor
Apatoraptor | |
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Holotype fossil at Royal Tyrrell Museum
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Caenagnathidae |
Genus: | †Apatoraptor Funston & Currie, 2016 |
Species: | †A. pennatus
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Binomial name | |
†Apatoraptor pennatus Funston & Currie, 2016
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Apatoraptor (meaning "deceptive thief") is a genus of caenagnathid dinosaur which contains a single species, A. pennatus. The only known specimen was discovered in the Campanian-age Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta.[1]
Discovery
In 1993, at Drumheller in Alberta, three kilometres west of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, a skeleton was found of a theropod. As it was initially identified as some unimportant ornithomimid specimen, preparation only started in 2002 and was almost immediately discontinued when no skull was thought to be present, the fossil again being covered in plaster. In 2008, research was resumed, and only then was it discovered that the fossil represented a species new to science.[1]
In 2016, the
The
Classification
Apatoraptor was, within the
See also
References
- ^ S2CID 131090028.