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Grallator yangi

Reptilia - Grallatoridae

Taxonomy
Paragrallator yangi was named by Lii and Zhang (2000). It is considered to be a form taxon. It is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Shuinan tracksite, which is in a Barremian terrestrial horizon in the Longwangzhuang Formation of China.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Lockley et al. (2013); it was recombined as Grallator yangi by Lockley et al. (2015), Li et al. (2022).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2000Paragrallator yangi Lii and Zhang
2007Paragrallator yangi Wings et al. p. 125
2011Paragrallator yangi Li et al. p. 423
2014Paragrallator yangi Lockley et al. p. 775
2015Grallator yangi Lockley et al. p. 71
2015Paragrallator yangi Xing et al. p. 1011
2022Grallator yangi Li et al. p. 4233

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Eugnathostomata
Teleostomi(Bonaparte 1836)
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Theropoda()
familyGrallatoridae
genusGrallator
speciesyangi(Lii and Zhang 2000)

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.

Grallator yangi Lii and Zhang 2000
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available