| Notatesseraeraptor | |
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| Holotype specimen in Sauriermuseum Frick | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Neotheropoda |
| Genus: | †Notatesseraeraptor Zahner & Brinkmann,2019 |
| Species: | †N. frickensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Notatesseraeraptor frickensis Zahner & Brinkmann, 2019 | |
Notatesseraeraptor ("feature mosaic tile thief"; from the Latin "nota", feature; "tesserae", tiles used to make a mosaic, in reference to the mixture of features normally found ondilophosaurids andcoelophysoids; and "raptor", thief) is agenus ofcarnivoroustheropoddinosaur that lived during theLate Triassic of what is nowSwitzerland. It was found in the Gruhalde Member of theKlettgau Formation. It was an early member ofNeotheropoda with affinities toDilophosaurus andAverostra. The new genus and speciesNotatesseraeraptor frickensis was named by Marion Zahner and colleagues in 2019.[1]
Since 1961, at the clay pit of Gruhalde, exploited by Tonwerke Keller, numerous fossils ofPlateosaurus have been found. At a somewhat higher layer, in the spring of 2006, amateur paleontologist Michael Fisher discovered the postcranial skeleton of a small theropod. In 2009, the skull was secured. The fossils were unearthed and prepared by Ben Pabst and team. Initially the skeleton was provisionally referred toCoelophysidae. In 2008, parts of the postcranial skeleton were described in amaster's thesis by Jasmina Christine Hugi.[2] Lui Unterassner described the shoulder girdle and stomach content in his thesis of 2009,[3] while Marion Zahner dedicated a thesis to the skull in 2014.[4]
In 2019, thetype speciesNotatesseraeraptor frickensis gen. et sp. nov. was named and described by Marion Zahner and Winand Brinkmann.[1] The generic name combines theLatinnota - "trait",tesserae - "mosaic tiles", andraptor - "thief". It refers to it being a carnivorous species showing a mix of traits of the Dilophosauridae and Coelophysoidea. Thespecific name refers to a provenance from the municipality ofFrick in theAargau.[1] It represents the firstMesozoic theropod named from Switzerland.
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