Protoavis texensis Chatterjee 1991 (theropod)

Reptilia - Theropoda

Full reference: S. Chatterjee. 1991. Cranial anatomy and relationships of a new Triassic bird from Texas. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 332:277-342

Belongs to Protoavis according to S. Chatterjee 1991

See also Hunt et al. 1998

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: TTU P 9200, a partial skull. Its type locality is Miller's Ranch Quarry, which is in a Norian floodplain mudstone/sandstone in the Cooper Canyon Formation of Texas.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Miller's Ranch Quarry

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