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Delectosaurus arefjevi
Taxonomy
Delectosaurus arefjevi was named by Kurkin (2001). Its type specimen is PIN no. 4644/1, a partial skull (skull is lacking the lower jaw; right maxilla, right nasal, and right part of premaxilla are damaged, both stapedes are lost; walls of the braincase are partial), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Voskresenskoe-2B, PIN 4644, which is in a Vyatkian terrestrial horizon in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Delectosaurus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2001 | Delectosaurus arefjevi Kurkin p. 54 fig. 1 |
| 2003 | Delectosaurus arefjevi Ivakhnenko |
| 2008 | Delectosaurus arefjevi Ivakhnenko |
| 2011 | Delectosaurus arefjevi Kammerer et al. p. 138 |
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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.
†Delectosaurus arefjevi Kurkin 2001
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Benton 1983, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||