Arctosaurus osborni Adams 1875 (archosauromorph)

Reptilia - Diapsida

Full reference: A. L. Adams. 1875. On a fossil saurian vertebra, Arctosaurus osborni, from the Arctic regions. Proceedings of the Irish Academy of Science, second series 2:177-179

Belongs to Arctosaurus according to H.-D. Sues 2016

See also Adams 1875, Adams 1877, Galton and Cluver 1976, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Huene 1902, Lambe 1905, Lydekker 1889, Nesbitt et al. 2007, Nopcsa 1901, Steel 1970 and Welles 1984

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NMI 62 1971, a set of vertebrae. Its type locality is Rendezvous Mountain, Cameron Island, which is in a Triassic terrestrial sandstone in the Heiberg Formation of Canada.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Rendezvous Mountain, Cameron Island

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