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Duriatitan humerocristatus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Cetiosaurus humerocristatus was named by Lydekker (1888). Its type specimen is BMNH R44635, a limb element (left humerus), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Smallmouth Sands (BMNH), which is in a Kimmeridgian marine claystone in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was synonymized subjectively with Ornithopsis leedsii by Mansel-Pleydell (1888); it was recombined as Ornithopsis humerocristatus by Lydekker (1888), Lydekker (1888), Woodward and Sherborn (1890), Williston (1905), Delair (1960), Delair (1960), Macfadyen (1970) and Brokenshire and Clarke (1994); it was synonymized subjectively with Ornithopsis leedsi by Zittel (1890) and Mansel-Pleydell (1902); it was recombined as Pelorosaurus humerocristatus by Lydekker (1890), Lydekker (1893), Lydekker (1893), Sauvage (1895), Sauvage (1897), Sauvage (1898), Sauvage (1898), Van Den Broeck (1900), Sauvage (1900), Sauvage (1900), Sauvage (1902), Sauvage (1914), Huene (1927), Lapparent (1967), Steel (1970), Paton (1975), Cuny et al. (1991) and Delair (1993); it was considered a nomen dubium by Blows (1995); it was recombined as Duriatitan humerocristatus by Barrett et al. (2010), Mocho et al. (2016) and Torcida‑Fernández Baldor et al. (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1874Cetiosaurus humerocristatus Hulke p. 17
1880Cetiosaurus humerocristatus Sauvage p. 546
1888Ornithopsis humerocristatus Lydekker p. 58
1888Cetiosaurus humerocristatus Lydekker p. 241
1890Pelorosaurus humerocristatus Lydekker p. 241
1890Ornithopsis humerocristatus Woodward and Sherborn p. 260
1893Pelorosaurus humerocristatus Lydekker p. 10
1895Pelorosaurus humerocristatus Sauvage p. 468
1897Pelorosaurus humerocristatus Sauvage p. 865
1898Pelorosaurus humerocristatus Sauvage p. 8
1900Pelorosaurus humerocristatus Sauvage p. 417
1900Pelorosaurus humerocristatus Van Den Broeck p. 82
1901Cetiosaurus humerocristatus Nopcsa p. 205
1902Pelorosaurus humerocristatus Sauvage p. 411
1904Ceteosaurus humerocristatus Lydekker p. 67
1905Ornithopsis humerocristatus Williston p. 344
1914Pelorosaurus humerocristatus Sauvage p. 254
1927Pelorosaurus humerocristatus Huene p. 454
1960Ornithopsis humerocristatus Delair p. 82
1967Pelorosaurus humerocristatus Lapparent p. 11
1970Ornithopsis humerocristatus Macfadyen p. 127
1970Pelorosaurus humerocristatus Steel p. 70
1975Pelorosaurus humerocristatus Paton p. 17
1991Pelorosaurus humerocristatus Cuny et al. p. 335
1993Pelorosaurus humerocristatus Delair p. 334
1994Ornithopsis humerocristatus Brokenshire and Clarke p. 178
2010Duriatitan humerocristatus Barrett et al. pp. 114-115
2016Duriatitan humerocristatus Mocho et al. p. 239
2020Duriatitan humerocristatus Torcida‑Fernández Baldor et al. p. 258

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Saurischia()
Sauropoda()
Titanosauriformes
genusDuriatitan
specieshumerocristatus()

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.

Duriatitan humerocristatus Lydekker 1888
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
P. M. Barrett et al. 2010A titanosauriform sauropod with an acute ridge formed at the posterolateral corner of the proximal end of the humerus, posterior to the deltopectoral crest.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteinfrao
Entire body: yesinfrao
Adult length: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult width: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult height: 10 to < 100infrao
Thickness: thickinfrao
Architecture: compact or denseinfrao
Form: sphericalinfrao
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partsinfrao
Grouping: gregariousinfrao
Environment: terrestrialinfrao
Locomotion: actively mobileinfrao
Life habit: ground dwellinginfrao
Diet: herbivoreinfrao
Reproduction: oviparousinfrao
Dispersal: direct/internalinfrao
Dispersal 2: mobileinfrao
Created: 2004-12-14 12:49:10
Modified: 2004-12-14 14:49:10
Source: infrao = infraorder
Reference: Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Tithonian to the top of the Berriasian or 152.10000 to 139.80000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian157.3 - 145.0United Kingdom (England) Gigantosaurus megalonyx (52701)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8United Kingdom (England) Cetiosaurus humerocristatus (type locality: 26795)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian155.7 - 145.0Portugal (Centro) Apatosaurus alenquerensis (49245)
Tithonian152.1 - 145.0France (Nord-Pas-de-Calais) Pelorosaurus humerocristatus (53967 65030)
Tithonian152.1 - 145.0United Kingdom (England) Pelorosaurus humerocristatus (170921)
Berriasian145.0 - 139.8United Kingdom (England) Pelorosaurus humerocristatus (52674)