Probable basal allosauroid from the early Middle Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation of Argentina highlights phylogenetic uncertainty in tetanuran theropod dinosaurs

Citation

Rauhut, O. W. M.; Pol, D. (2019). Probable basal allosauroid from the early Middle Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation of Argentina highlights phylogenetic uncertainty in tetanuran theropod dinosaurs. Scientific Reports 9(1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-53672-7

Names first published here

• Asfaltovenator genus
• Asfaltovenator vialidadi species

Cited by genera

• Asfaltovenator

  Gives the type locality as lacustrine layers of the Cañadón Asfalto Formation, late Toarcian to Bajocian, citing the basin geochronology rather than a horizon found for this taxon.

Cited by clades

• Megalosauroidea

  Recovered traditional megalosauroids as a paraphyletic grade outside Allosauroidea within Carnosauria.