| Incertovenator Temporal range: Late Triassic, Carnian ~
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| Axis and third cervical of the holotype of Incertovenator (PVSJ 397) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Clade: | Eucrocopoda |
| Clade: | Archosauria (?) |
| Genus: | †Incertovenator Yáñez et al., 2021 |
| Species: | †I. longicollum
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| Binomial name | |
| †Incertovenator longicollum Yáñez et al., 2021
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Incertovenator (meaning "uncertain hunter") is an extinct genus of archosauriform reptile, likely an archosaur, of uncertain affinities. Its unstable position is a result of possessing a number features found in both the bird-line avemetatarsalian archosaurs and the crocodylian-line pseudosuchians. The type and only known species is I. longicollum, which is known from single specimen discovered in the Late Triassic (Carnian aged) Ischigualasto Formation of Argentina. Incertovenator is known almost entirely by its vertebral column. This indicates that it had a relatively long neck, leading to its uncertain classification due to the convergent evolution of elongated neck vertebrae in both avemetatarsalian and pseudosuchian archosaurs.[1]