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Shuvosaurus inexpectatus

Reptilia - Shuvosauridae

Taxonomy
Shuvosaurus inexpectatus was named by Chatterjee (1993). Its type specimen is TTU P 9280, a skull, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Miller's Ranch Quarry, which is in a Norian floodplain mudstone/sandstone in the Cooper Canyon Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Shuvosaurus.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Shuvosaurus inexpectatus Chatterjee pp. 274-376 figs. 4-6
1995Chatterjeea elegans Long and Murry
1996Shuvosaurus inexpectatus Rich p. 711
1997Shuvosaurus inexpectatus Murry and Long p. 192
1997Shuvosaurus inexpectatus Osmólska p. 501
1997Shuvosaurus inexpectatus Rauhut pp. 17-21
1998Shuvosaurus inexpectatus Hunt et al. p. 521
2003Shuvosaurus inexpectatus Rauhut p. 18
2007Shuvosaurus inexpectatus Nesbitt et al. p. 224
2011Shuvosaurus inexpectatus Nesbitt p. 32

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
RankNameAuthor
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—SuchiaKrebs 1974
familyShuvosauridae
genusShuvosaurus
speciesinexpectatus

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.

†Shuvosaurus inexpectatus Chatterjee 1993
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Invalid names: Chatterjeea elegans Long and Murry 1995 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoresubo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:38:45
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:38:45
Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Benton 1983

Age range: Norian or 228.00000 to 208.50000 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Carnian - Norian237.0 - 208.5USA (Texas) Chatterjeea elegans (22706)
Norian228.0 - 208.5USA (Texas) Shuvosaurus inexpectatus, Chatterjeea elegans (type locality: 13273)
Norian228.0 - 208.5USA (New Mexico) Chatterjeea sp. (93590) Poposaurus sp. (49499) Shuvosaurus inexpectatus (48516)
Norian228.0 - 208.5USA (Arizona) Chatterjeea elegans (39160 92850 93394 93432)