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Imperobator
Temporal range: Maastrichtian
~71  Ma
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Reconstructed left hind limb
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Paraves
Genus:† Imperobator
Ely & Case, 2019
Species:
†I. antarcticus
Binomial name
†Imperobator antarcticus
Ely & Case, 2019

Imperobator ("powerful warrior") is a genus of paravian theropod, a group of large, three-toed carnivorous dinosaurs, that lived during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now James Ross Island in Antarctica. Imperobator is one of only two non-avian theropods known from Antarctica, crossing over to the landmass when it was part of Gondwana. The only described specimen was found in 2003 by an expedition launched by the University of California Museum of Paleontology and initially described as a dromaeosaur in 2007. However, later searches reported more fossils from the site including teeth and skull bones. The fossils were formally described as a new genus of giant paravian in 2019.

Imperobator is one of the largest known paravians, with an estimated height of 2 metres (6.6 ft), making it of comparable size to the gigantic North American dromaeosaurs Utahraptor and Dakotaraptor . Its fossils lack the characteristic "sickle claw" on the second digit, excluding it from properly being considered a dromaeosaur by some research. Imperobator's lack of complete remains has caused controversy over its classification. It was described as a basal paravian by Ely & Case (2019), but a later study recovered it as a basal dromaeosaur.

It was discovered in the Cape Lamb Member strata of the Snow Hill Island Formation, which bears a variety of other fossils, many of them unique as they evolved in the isolation of Antarctica after the breakup of Gondwana. Imperobator coexisted with the ornithopod dinosaur Morrosaurus and bird Antarcticavis in addition to a menagerie of mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and a pterosaur.

Discovery and naming

Aerial view photo of James Ross Island, where Imperobator was discovered. James Ross Island captured by NASA photographer James Ross.jpg
Aerial view photo of James Ross Island, where Imperobator was discovered.

Fossils of a large theropod dinosaur were unearthed in December 2003 by a fossil hunting expedition that had been mounted by the University of California Museum of Paleontology to the Naze Peninsula of James Ross Island, Antarctica to find fossils. [1] [2] [3] The peninsula bears several fossiliferous outcrops of marine sediment. These belong to the Cape Lamb Member of the Snow Hill Island Formation, which dates to the early Maastrictian age of the Late Cretaceous (~71 mya). [4] [2] The fossils were unearthed in 2003, consisting mostly of an incomplete isolated left pes including a portion of the tibia, an incomplete astragalus, a partial calcaneus and fibula, ungual, partial phalanges and metacarpals, though teeth are known as well. [1] [2] They were then deposited at the University of California Museum of Paleontology under catalog number UCMP 276000. However, additional fossils were located in the facilities of Eastern Washington University and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology that pertain to UCMP 276000 including skull fragments which may be from the premaxilla, maxilla, and/or dentary as well as a caudal vertebra, more teeth, and pedal elements. [4] The third Antarctic Peninsula Paleontology Project expedition in 2011 and 2016 to the same locality found even more fossils from the UCMP 276000 individual, such as a tooth, incomplete pedal ungual, cranial fragments, and indeterminate bone shards, now in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History under number AMNH FARB 30894. [4] [5] [6] According to Lamanna et al. (2019), an ongoing description of the novel remains is in the works. [4]

The fossils were first reported in published literature in 2005, with the authors theorizing that the specimen was of a "primitive holdover of the original Gondwanan dinosaur assemblage", noting its less derived characteristics compared to other Maastrichtian dromaeosaurs. [3] [6] A more detailed paper on the theropod specimen was published in 2007, which believed that it was of a dromaeosaurid, dubbing it the "Naze dromaeosaur" after the site in which it was found. [1] [7] The idea of the fossils being from a dromaeosaur was erroneous, as the pes lacked the distinct sickle claw in addition to other characteristics of dromaeosaurs. [2] [1] The specimen was formally described as the holotype of a new genus and species, Imperobator antarcticus, by American paleontologists Ricardo Ely and Judd Case in 2019. The generic name derives from the Latin for “powerful warrior“. The specific name refers to the continent in which the specimen was discovered. [2]

Description

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Hypothetical life restoration

The holotype specimen measures approximately 45 cm in length, and it is estimated that Imperobator would have measured 2 m (6.6 ft) tall, [2] comparable to the size of the largest named dromaeosaur Utahraptor. [8] This shows that Imperobator exhibited gigantism, a trait not often seen among paravians and which is best documented in the genera Utahraptor, Austroraptor , Deinonychus and Dakotaraptor . Despite prior assignment to Dromaeosauridae, Imperobator has since been assigned to the clade Paraves due to certain characteristics that differ from those of dromaeosaurids, including the lack of a sickle claw, the smooth surface of the distal metatarsal II and the lack of an ungual on the second pedal digit. [2] The specimen preserves teeth from the maxilla and dentary, which were long, curved, and bladed like in other carnivorous paravians. [6] [4]

Leg

Imperobator is known only from fragmentary remains of the hindlimb, but it is still unique in several ways. The distal portion of the left tibia (shin bone) and some of the astragalus are preserved, though much of their characteristic features are missing due to erosion and frost. Both calcanea are preserved and are fused with the fibulae, a unique trait of the genus, with a fossa (shallow depression) on the internal surface of the calcanea for articulation with the astragalus. The calcanea have a circular, smooth surface divided by a groove running along its dorsal side. The left tarsal is longer anteroposteriorly than it is wide with a sub-triangular outline in anterior view. [2] [1]

The metatarsals are preserved but are fragmented and broken. Of the ones preserved, metatarsals II and IV are broken into three pieces and metatarsal III into two pieces. Metatarsal V may be preserved, but it is not definitively stated by Ely & Case (2019). Metatarsal II is unique from that of other paravians in that it is parallelogram-shaped in cross-section, contrary to the circular or ovate forms in other genera. It also may preserve another diagnostic trait, a medial slant at the end of the diaphysis (midsection of the long bone), though this could be a pathological trait. Metatarsal III is heavily damaged but shows a symmetrical distal articular end and a triangle-shaped proximal end in anterior view, as in other paravians. The fourth metatarsal has a long ridge running along its posterior edge with a wider proximal end proportionally compared to the other metatarsals. The second pedal digit is incomplete, but a proximal half of phalanx II and the ungual is known from it. The third is represented by a proximal phalanx fragment, which is poorly preserved. A complete proximal-most phalanx of the fourth digit was also found. The incomplete ungual has a prominent flexor heel, a trait shared by the Romanian paravian Balaur bondoc . [2] [9]

Classification

Before Imperobator was officially described, a paper published in 2007 announced the specimen and assigned it to the clade Dromaeosauridae; it was nicknamed the "Naze dromaeosaur". [1] This was problematic as UCMP 276000 lacked multiple characteristics of dromaeosaurids, including a prominent sickle claw, and the paper naming and describing Imperobator assigned it only to the clade Paraves. [2] During the formal description of Imperobator, the authors recovered this taxon as a paravian theropod, related to smaller members of the group: [2]

Paraves

Later in 2019 Scott Hartman and team in their description of Hesperornithoides conducted a large phylogenetic analysis of Theropoda, where they recovered Imperobator (left unnamed at the time the analysis was created) as a basal (primitive) ornithomimosaur closely allied to deinocheirid ornithomimosaurs; [10] however, an updated version of that analysis made by one of the authors (including information from its formal description) recovered it as a basal member of the Deinonychosauria. [6]

Paleoenvironment

Reconstruction of the Snow Hill Island Formation's flora and fauna, with Imperobator in the left foreground. Snow Hill Island Formation paleoenvironment recon.jpg
Reconstruction of the Snow Hill Island Formation's flora and fauna, with Imperobator in the left foreground.

Imperobator is known solely from the Cape Lamb Member of the Snow Hill Island Formation in James Ross Island, an island in the James Ross Island group on the northeastern edge of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Snow Hill Island Formation is one of only two major dinosaur-bearing rock formations found on Antarctica, bearing all but two of the continent's named dinosaurs. [11] The floral composition, habitat, and climate are of one similar to modern volcanic arches. [12] During the time in which Imperobator lived, Earth's climate was much warmer and more humid than it is today and as a result Antarctica was without ice. The environment was mainly dominated by large dense conifer forests, cycads, and ginkgos. The animals inhabiting Antarctica at this time would still have had to endure long periods of darkness during the winter, much like in modern-day Antarctica. [4]

Imperobator's fossils bear some surface weathering and abrasion, which indicate that they have gone through minimal transport, reworking, and sub-aerial weathering. [2] This is in contrast to the holotype of the ankylosaur Antarctopelta , which likely floated out to sea and was buried by marine sediments on the ocean floor. [13] [14] From the site in which Imperobator was found, pollen grains from Asteraceae, the group containing sunflowers and daisies, are the oldest records of the family that were collected. [15] Some of the environment may have been wet and similar to peat bogs, as evidenced by Sphagnaceae (peat mosses) and several other groups like the clubmoss Selaginella, the firmoss group Lycopodiaceae, and the clade Ericaceae. [16] The Cape Lamb Member of the formation has yielded several other fossil remains, such as the herbivorous ornithopod Morrosaurus, an indeterminate hypsilophodontid ornithopod, [12] the avian Antarcticavis , [17] an indeterminate neornithine, [18] an unnamed pterosaur, [19] the elasmosaurid Vegasaurus ; [20] the mosasaurs Taniwhasaurus, [21] Liodon, [22] Plioplatecarpus, [21] and Mosasaurus , [22] sharks such as Notidanodon, [12] and several bony fishes from the groups Teleostei, [12] Actinopterygii, [23] Ichthyodectiformes, [12] and Sphenocephalidae. [12] Shelled ammonites, a kind of aquatic, shelled cephalopod, are found in the layers of the Cape Lamb Member. [12]

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