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Tachiraptor
- ... that the 200-million year old Tachiraptor is the second dinosaur discovered from Venezuala, and a basal averostran?
- ALT1:... that Tachiraptor is an Early Jurassic Venezualan basal averostran that has reduced the ghost lineage of its group?
- Comment: This is a fairly important discovery, much in the same way Nyasasaurus was, so I think it's reasonable to put it up as a DYK entry.
Created by MWAK (talk), G S Palmer (talk), FunkMonk (talk), and Jeda045 (talk). Nominated by Raptormimus456 (talk) at 13:19, 17 October 2014 (UTC).
- I agree that the discovery is important, but I must point out that Tachiraptor is not a basal averostran for the simple reason that it is not an averostran. It is part of the branch leading to the Averostra.--MWAK (talk) 16:32, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- ALT1 just sounds like it should be in a textbook I'm too uneducated to understand. If it's correct ALT0 looks fine, but I'm going to ping: Template:Ping. They'll know! PanydThe muffin is not subtle 14:21, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
- It's a stem-averostran. But if you want a (or to) hook, you could say: ... that the newly discovered dinosaur Tachiraptor is by 25 million years the oldest known species of a branch leading to the birds? Not that Averostra itself is that branch, mind you. Birds always pique the interest of the reader.