Patagopterygiformes

Patagopterygiforms Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 85–66  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Skeleton restoration of Patagopteryx deferrariisi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	Theropoda
Clade:	Avialae
Clade:	Euornithes
Clade:	† Patagopterygiformes Alvarenga & Bonaparte 1992
Subgroups
† Alamitornis † Kuszholia ? † Patagopteryx

Patagopterygiformes is an extinct group of large terrestrial ornithuromorph dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of South America. It contains at most three genera: Patagopteryx , Alamitornis ^[1] and possibly Kuszholia . ^[2]

References

1. Federico L. Agnolin and Agustín G. Martinelli (2009). "Fossil birds from the Late Cretaceous Los Alamitos Formation, Río Negro Province, Argentina". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 27 (1). Elsevier: 42–49. Bibcode:2009JSAES..27...42A. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2008.09.003. ISSN   0895-9811. OCLC   263598913.
2. Michael J. Benton; Mikhail A. Shishkin; David M. Unwin; Evgenii N. Kurochkin, eds. (2000). The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press. p. 552. ISBN   0-521-55476-4.

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