Re: Araucanoraptor (with a side order of sour grapes)

["Mickey Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com>]

Tommy Bradley wrote-

> I'm currently working on *Araucanoraptor* again, and curious if it's
status
> (nomina nuda) has changed since I last researched it, or if there have
been
> any further developments in its genetic status, phylogenic placement, or
> possible synonymy with another genus or species.

"Araucanoraptor" Novas vide Anonymous 1997
"A. argentinus" Novas vide Anonymous 1997
Late Turonian-Early Coniacian, Late Cretaceous
Portezuelo Formation of the Rio Neuquen Subgroup, Argentina
Material- (2.5 m) partial femur, pes (pedal ungual II 65 mm)
Description- Arctometatarsalian metatarsus (Holtz, DML 1997).
Comments- Discovered in 1-96 during a National Geographic Society sponsored
trip.
References- Novas, Cladera and Puerta, 1996. New theropods from the Late
Cretaceous of Patagonia. JVP 16(3) 56A.
Anonymous, 1997. Clarin (Argentine newspaper). 7-23-97.
Novas, Apesteguia, Pol and Cambiaso, 1999. Un probable Troodontido
(Theropoda - Coelurosauria) del Cretacico Tardio de Patagonia. XV Jornadas
Argentinas de Paleontologia de Vertebrados (La Plata). Ameghiniana 36 (S),
p. 17R.

Mickey Mortimer