Oryctos
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Jean Le Loeuff & Eric Buffetaut, A new dromaeosaurid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Southern France. Oryctos 1, 105-112.
New dromaeosaurid remains from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France (Var Department, Fox-Amphoux syncline) include vertebrae and a right humerus. This material belongs to a new genus and species of dromaeosaurid, described as Variraptor mechinorum. Among its derived features are double pleurocoels on the cervico-dorsal vertebrae and a strong medial tubercle on the humerus. Variraptor mechinorum is interpreted as a representative of an isolated European lineage of dromaeosaurids which evolved from an Early Cretaceous Euramerican ancestral stock.
Keywords : Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae, Variraptor, Late Cretaceous, France
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