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Latenivenatrix mcmasterae
Taxonomy
Latenivenatrix mcmasterae was named by van der Reest and Currie (2017). Its type specimen is CMN 12340, a partial skeleton (a partial skeleton including paired frontals and parietals, right postorbital, basioccipital, basisphenoid, partial dorsal vertebra, three partial caudal verteb), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is RTMP Quarry 133, Red Deer River (NMC), which is in a Campanian terrestrial claystone/sandstone in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Canada.
It was synonymized subjectively with Stenonychosaurus inequalis by Carr et al. (2022).
It was synonymized subjectively with Stenonychosaurus inequalis by Carr et al. (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2017 | Latenivenatrix mcmasterae van der Reest and Currie |
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†Latenivenatrix mcmasterae van der Reest and Currie 2017
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. J. van der Reest and P. J. Currie 2017 | A troodontid dinosaur within Troodontinae that is distinguished from other derived troodontines by possessing a triangular frontal with a single deep groove in the frontonasal contact surface, and a concave anterior surface of metatarsal III. It has the following three autapomorphies: 17° retroverted pubis, an anteriorly curving pubic shaft, and a large muscle scar on the lateral surface of the pubic shaft slightly proximal to the pubic boot. |
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| References: Holtz et al. 2000, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | Canada (Alberta) | Latenivenatrix mcmasterae (46953 229978) Stenonychosaurus inequalis (type locality: 34745 59137) |