Notatesseraeraptor
Name:
Notatesseraeraptor
(feature mosaic tile thief).
Phonetic: No-ta-tes-se-ray-rap-tor.
Named By: Marion Zahner & Winand
Brinkmann - 2019.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
saurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda.
Species: N. frickensis
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Uncertain, but holotype individual roughly
estimated to be about 2.6 - 3 meters long. Holotype is of a
juvenile, adult would have likely been at least slightly larger.
Known locations: Switzerland - Klettgau
Formation.
Time period: Late Triassic.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial post
cranial skeleton of a juvenile individual.
Notatesseraeraptor
is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in Europe during the late
Triassic. Notatesseraeraptor has had several
parts described in
three Master’s thesis, but was not formally named as a distinct
genus until 2019.
Further reading
- The Axial and Appendicular Morphology of the First Theropod
Skeleton (Saurischia, Dinosauria) of Switzerland (Late
Triassic; Frick, Canton Aargau). - Master thesis,
University of Zurich, 161 pp - Jasmina Christine Hugi -
2008.
- The Anterior Appendicular Morphology and the Stomach Content of the
First Theropod Skeleton (Saurischia, Dinosauria) of Switzerland
(Late Triassic; Frick, Canton Aargau). - Master thesis,
University of Zurich, 136 pp. - Lui Unterassner - 2009.
- Skull Morphology of the First Theropod Skeleton (Saurischia,
Dinosauria) from Switzerland (Late Triassic; Frick, Canton
Aargau). - Master thesis, University of Zurich, 122 pp.
- Marion Zahner - 2014.
- A Triassic averostran-line theropod from Switzerland and the early
evolution of dinosaurs. - Nature Ecology & Evolution.
3. - Marion Zahner & Winand Brinkmann - 2019.
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