Ostromia
Sign in to saveOstromia (named after John Ostrom) is a genus of anchiornithid theropod dinosaur containing a single species, Ostromia crassipes. Recovered from the Late Jurassic Painten Formation of Germany, it was named by Christian Foth and Oliver Rauhut in 2017.
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- Differences from ''Archaeopteryx''
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- References
Ostromia (named after John Ostrom) is a genus of anchiornithid theropod dinosaur containing a single species, Ostromia crassipes. Recovered from the Late Jurassic Painten Formation of Germany, it was named by Christian Foth and Oliver Rauhut in 2017.
== Discovery and naming == thumb|left|Furrows (yellow arrows) in the hand bones of Ostromia (a,b) and Anchiornis (c,d)|194x194px The holotype was discovered near Riedenburg, Germany in 1855 and it was originally misidentified as a species of a pterodactyloid pterosaur and named Pterodactylus crassipes in 1857. In 1970 it was identified as an Archaeopteryx by paleontologist John Ostrom, who called it the "Haarlem specimen", since it was kept in the Teylers Museum in Haarlem. In 2017 Christian Foth and Oliver Rauhut concluded it was more closely related to the Chinese Anchiornis and introduced the generic name Ostromia, named after Ostrom.