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Halisaurus platyspondylus
Taxonomy
Macrosaurus platyspondylus was named by Marsh (1869). Its type specimen is YPM 444, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Baptosaurus, Halisaurus.
It was recombined as Baptosaurus platyspondylus by Cope (1870), Hay (1902) and Hay (1930); it was recombined as Halisaurus platyspondylus by Marsh (1869), Baird and Case (1966), Russell (1967), Bardet et al. (2005), Fanti et al. (2014) and Driscoll et al. (2019).
It was recombined as Baptosaurus platyspondylus by Cope (1870), Hay (1902) and Hay (1930); it was recombined as Halisaurus platyspondylus by Marsh (1869), Baird and Case (1966), Russell (1967), Bardet et al. (2005), Fanti et al. (2014) and Driscoll et al. (2019).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1869 | Macrosaurus platyspondylus Marsh |
| 1869 | Halisaurus platyspondylus Marsh pp. 395-397 |
| 1870 | Baptosaurus platyspondylus Cope p. 209 |
| 1902 | Baptosaurus platyspondylus Hay p. 468 |
| 1930 | Baptosaurus platyspondylus Hay p. 264 |
| 1966 | Halisaurus platyspondylus Baird and Case p. 1211 |
| 1967 | Halisaurus platyspondylus Russell p. 169 |
| 2005 | Halisaurus platyspondylus Bardet et al. p. 449 |
| 2014 | Halisaurus platyspondylus Fanti et al. |
| 2019 | Halisaurus platyspondylus Driscoll et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Halisaurus platyspondylus Marsh 1869
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available