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Saurophaganax maximus

Osteichthyes - Allosauridae

Taxonomy
Saurophaganax maximus was named by Chure (1995). It is not extant. Its type specimen is OMNH 01123. Its type locality is Stovall's Pit 1, Kenton (OMNH V92), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian wet floodplain mudstone/sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Oklahoma. It is the type species of Saurophaganax.

It was recombined as Allosaurus maximus by Smith (1998), Smith (1998), Rauhut (2003); it was considered a nomen dubium by Danison et al. (2024).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1995Saurophaganax maximus Chure p. 106 figs. 1-2
1998Allosaurus maximus Smith p. 126
2000Saurophaganax maximus Chure p. 2
2003Allosaurus maximus Rauhut p. 22
2004Saurophaganax maximus Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 75
2006Saurophaganax maximus Chure et al. p. 236
2006Saurophaganax maximus Hunt and Lucas p. 117
2006Saurophaganax maximus Mateus p. 231
2011Saurophaganax maximus Hone et al. p. 502
2012Saurophaganax maximus Carrano et al. pp. 240-241
2012Saurophaganax maximus Decker p. 17
2014Saurophaganax maximus Cobos et al. p. 39
2014Saurophaganax maximus Dalman p. 174
2024Saurophaganax maximus Burigo and Mateus p. 41

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
superfamilyAllosauroidea
—Allosauria()
familyAllosauridae
genusSaurophaganax
speciesmaximus

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.

†Saurophaganax maximus Chure 1995
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
M. T. Carrano et al. 2012Allosauroid with: (1) atlas lacking prezygapophyses for proatlas; and (2) accessory horizontal lamina at base of dorsal vertebral neural spines, located dorsal and parallel to transverse process (all from Chure 1995).