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Aerosteon riocoloradensis ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	148966	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=148966

Rank

species (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Avetheropoda : Megaraptoridae : Aerosteon : Aerosteon riocoloradensis

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Theropoda
-	Neotheropoda	Bakker 1986
-	Averostra	Paul 2002
-	Tetanurae	Gauthier 1986
order	Avetheropoda	Paul 1988
-	Carnosauria
superfamily	Allosauroidea	Currie and Zhao 1994
family	Neovenatoridae	Benson et al. 2010
-	Megaraptora	Benson et al. 2010
family	Megaraptoridae	Novas et al. 2013
genus	Aerosteon	Sereno et al. 2008
species	Aerosteon riocoloradensis	Sereno et al. 2008

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Aerosteon riocoloradensis	species	belongs to Aerosteon	stated with evidence	Sereno et al., 2008
Aerosteon riocoloradensis	species	belongs to Aerosteon	stated without evidence	Benson et al., 2010
Aerosteon riocoloradensis	species	belongs to Aerosteon	stated with evidence	Carrano et al., 2012
Aerosteon riocoloradensis	species	belongs to Aerosteon	stated without evidence	Hendrickx and Mateus, 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Theropoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Theropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Carnosauria)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. C. Sereno, R. N. Martínez, and J. A. Wilson, D. J. Varricchio, O. A. Alcober, H. C. E. Larsson. 2008. Evidence for avian intrathoracic air sacs in a new predatory dinosaur from Argentina. PLoS ONE 3(9):e3303:1-20

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
2008	Aerosteon riocoloradensis Sereno et al. pp. 3-4 figs. 2-11, 12A, 13-16
2010	Aerosteon riocoloradensis Benson et al. p. 75
2012	Aerosteon riocoloradensis Carrano et al. p. 222
2012	Aerosteon riocoloradensis Hendrickx and Mateus p. 102
2013	Aerosteon riocoloradensis Brusatte et al. p. 5 fig. 1.2
2016	Aerosteon riocoloradensis Coria and Currie p. 2

References

Sereno P. C., Martínez R. N., et al (2008) Evidence for avian intrathoracic air sacs in a new predatory dinosaur from Argentina, PLoS ONE 3 9, e3303:1-20 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003303

Benson R. B. J., Carrano M. T., et al (2010) A new clade of archaic large-bodied predatory dinosaurs (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) that survived to the latest Mesozoic, Naturwissenschaften 97, 71-78 doi:10.1007/s00114-009-0614-x

Carrano M. T., Benson R. B. J., et al (2012) The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10 2, 211-300 doi:10.1080/14772019.2011.630927

Brusatte S. L., Hone D. W. E., et al (2013) Phylogenetic revision of Chingkankousaurus fragilis, a forgotten tyrannosauroid from the Late Cretaceous of China, Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology, 2-13

Coria R. A., Currie P. J. (2016) A new megaraptoran dinosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda, Megaraptoridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, PLoS ONE 11 7, e0157973:1-53 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157973

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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