| Aniksosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Right femur (MDT-PV 1/3) and right tibia (MDT-PV 1/48) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Genus: | †Aniksosaurus |
| Species: | †A. darwini
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| Binomial name | |
| †Aniksosaurus darwini Martínez & Novas, 2006
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Aniksosaurus (meaning "spring lizard", from Modern Greek Άνοιξη, "Spring", referring to the fact it was found on 21 September 1995, the onset of Spring on the Southern Hemisphere) is a genus of avetheropod dinosaur from what is now Chubut Province, Argentina. It lived during the Cenomanian to Turonian of the Cretaceous period, between 96-91 million years ago. The type species, Aniksosaurus darwini, was formally described from the Bajo Barreal Formation of the Golfo San Jorge Basin by Rubén Dario Martínez and Fernando Emilio Novas in 2006;[1] the name was first coined in 1995 and reported in the literature in 1997.[2] The specific epithet honors Charles Darwin who visited Patagonia in 1832/1833 during the Voyage of the Beagle.
- ^ Martínez, R.D., and Novas, F.E. (2006). "Aniksosaurus darwini gen. et sp. nov., a new coelurosaurian theropod from the early Late Cretaceous of central Patagonia, Argentina." Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, n.s. 8(2): 243-259.
- ^ Martínez, R.D.; Novas, F.E. (1997). "A new tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Bajo Barreal Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Patagonia". Ameghiniana. 34 (4): 538.