Brodavis
Brodavis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Avialae |
Clade: | †Hesperornithes |
Family: | †Brodavidae Martin et al., 2012 |
Genus: | †Brodavis Martin et al., 2012 |
Type species | |
†Brodavis americanus Martin et al., 2012
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Species | |
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B. baileyi is known from the holotype left metatarsal, UNSM 50665, which was collected in the Maastrichtian-age Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota, United States (dated to between 66.8 and 66 Ma ago[1])
B. mongoliensis is known from the holotype left metatarsal, PIN 4491-8, which was collected in the Maastrichtian-age Nemegt Formation of Mongolia.
B. varneri was originally named as a second species of Baptornis by James Martin and Amanda Cordes-Person in 2007. It is based on the holotype left tarsometatarsal SDSM 68430 which was collected in the Campanian-age Sharon Springs Formation, lower Pierre Shale of southwestern South Dakota (dated to between 81.5 and 80.5 million years ago.[2]). "Baptornis" varneri might represent a fourth species of Brodavis or belong to a separate genus.
Brodavis is considered to be the first freshwater and latest record of the order