Published September 12, 2007
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Achillesaurus Martinelli & Vera 2007, gen. nov.
Creators
- 1. Sección Paleontología de Vertebrados, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ' Bernardino Rivadavia', Av. Ángel Gallardo 470 (1405), Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: agustin _ martinelli @ yahoo. com. ar Sección Paleobotánica, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ' Bernardino Rivadavia', Av. Ángel Gallardo 470 (1405), Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: evera @ macn. gov. ar
Description
Genus Achillesaurus gen. nov.
Derivation of name. Achilles (Latin), in reference to Achilles’ heel, the weak point of Achilles in the book “Iliad” written by Homer, because the holotype has diagnostic features in this portion of the skeleton.
Type and only known species. Achillesaurus manazzonei sp. nov.
Diagnosis. The same as for the species.
Notes
Published as part of Martinelli, Agustín G. & Vera, Ezequiel I., 2007, Achillesaurus manazzonei, a new alvarezsaurid theropod (Dinosauria) from the Late Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa Formation, Río Negro Province, Argentina, pp. 1-17 in Zootaxa 1582 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1582.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5097519
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Identifiers
Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.1582.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5097519 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/0B51FFF1FFF8F222FF9FFFCB803EFF93 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/12B7C862-2046-4E41-A001-34A5247A783D (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/F7688789FFFAF220FF08FAA482A8F9DF (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Alvarezsauridae
- Genus
- Achillesaurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Saurischia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Martinelli & Vera
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Achillesaurus Martinelli & Vera, 2007