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Gojirasaurus quayi

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Gojirasaurus quayi was named by Carpenter (1997). Its type specimen is UCM 47721, a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCM Loc. 82021, Revuelto Creek Local Fauna, which is in a Norian terrestrial mudstone in the Bull Canyon Formation of New Mexico. It is the type species of Gojirasaurus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1997Gojirasaurus quayi Carpenter p. 191 figs. 2-8
1999Gojirasaurus quayi Naish p. 369
2003Gojirasaurus quayi Rauhut p. 13
2004Gojirasaurus quayi Tykoski and Rowe p. 48
2005Gojirasaurus quayi Yates p. 117
2006Gojirasaurus quayi Lucas et al. p. 91
2007Gojirasaurus quayi Nesbitt et al. pp. 221-222
2017Gojirasaurus quayi Ezcurra p. 516

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
superfamilyCoelophysoidea
genusGojirasaurus
speciesquayi

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.

†Gojirasaurus quayi Carpenter 1997
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available