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Nitosaurus jacksonorum

Pelycosauria

Taxonomy
Nitosaurus jacksonorum was named by Romer (1937). Its type specimen is AMNH 4782, a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is El Cobre Canyon (Cutler Formation), which is in a Virgilian fluvial siliciclastic in the Cutler Formation of New Mexico.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Nitosaurus jacksonorum Romer p. 93
1986Nitosaurus jacksonorum Reisz

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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
orderPelycosauria
genusNitosaurus
speciesjacksonorum

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.

†Nitosaurus jacksonorum Romer 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available