PBDB Taxon

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Fabrosauridae

Taxonomy

Subtaxa

Year	Name and author
1972	Fabrosauridae Galton p. 465
1974	Fabrosauridae Galton p. 1064 fig. 6
1974	Fabrosauridae Thulborn p. 171
1975	Fabrosauridae Thulborn p. 134
1977	Fabrosauridae Galton p. 230
1977	Fabrosauridae Thulborn p. 737
1978	Fabrosauridae Anderson and Cruickshank p. 31
1978	Fabrosauridae Bonaparte p. 331
1978	Fabrosauridae Thuborn p. 187
1979	Fabrosauridae Benton p. 143
1981	Fabrosauridae Colbert p. 6
1982	Fabrosauridae Young p. 29
1983	Fabrosauridae Dong et al. p. 94
1983	Fabrosauridae Galton p. 5
1983	Fabrosauridae Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1984	Fabrosauridae Milner and Norman p. 146
1984	Fabrosauridae Norman p. 160 fig. 2
1984	Fabrosauridae Olsen and Galton p. 91
1984	Fabrosauridae Russell p. 29
1986	Fabrosauridae Battail p. 49
1987	Fabrosauridae Buscalioni and Sanz p. 66
1988	Fabrosauridae Carroll
1990	Fabrosauridae Benton p. 25
1992	Fabrosauridae Peng p. 39
1997	Fabrosauridae Peng p. 239
1999	Fabrosauridae Knoll p. 65
2002	Fabrosauridae Knoll p. 596
2005	Fabrosauridae Knoll p. 85

Reference	Diagnosis
P. M. Galton 1972	Maxillary and dentary teeth marginal, flat maxilla, dentary slender, rudimentary anterior ptocess to pubis.
G. Peng 1997	1. lacrimal inserts into a narrow slot in the apex of the maxilla; 2. mandible with peculiarly salient finger-like retroarticular process; 3. especially short forelimb that is approximately 40% of the hndlimb in length; 4. ilium with a supra-acetabluar flange over the anterior half of the acetabulum; 5. posterior process of the ilium with a distinct brevis shelf that first turns medially and then downwards; 6. ischium with a dorsal groove on the proximal shaft; 7. pedal digit I reduced, with the splint-like shaft of metatarsal I and the ungual extending just beyond the end of the second metatarsal.
F. Knoll 1999	This family can be diagnosed by six main apomorphies: slot in the maxilla for the insertion of the lachrymal; especially short forelimb; brevis shelf on the ilium that curves medially then downward; dorsal groove on the shaft of the ischium; pedal digit I reduced; "fabrosaurid type" of tooth.