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Alierasaurus ronchii

Caseidae

Taxonomy
Alierasaurus ronchii was named by Romano and Nicosia (2014). Its type specimen is MPUR NS 151, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Promontory of Torre del Porticciolo, which is in a Kungurian/Roadian wet floodplain mudstone in the Cala del Vino Formation of Italy. It is the type species of Alierasaurus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2014Alierasaurus ronchii Romano and Nicosia p. 902 figs. Figs. 2-11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Caseasauria()
familyCaseidae
genusAlierasaurus
speciesronchii

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Alierasaurus ronchii Romano and Nicosia 2014
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
M. Romano and U. Nicosia 2014Large caseid with an overall size comparable to that of Cotylorhynchus hancocki, and characterized by the following autapomorphies: metatarsal IV with distinct axial region, length about twice that of the corresponding proximal phalanx, not short and massive as in other large caseids; metatarsal IV proximal head not orthogonal to the bone axis, forming an an- gle of 120◦ with the shaft: with this conformation, the proximal and distal heads are much closer along the medial side of the metatarsal; claw-shaped ungual phalanges proportionally shorter than in Cotylorhynchus, with a double ventral flexor tubercle very close to the proximal rim of the phalanx; ungual phalangeal axis bent downward and medially; distal transverse section subtriangular, not spatulate as in Cotylorhynchus.