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Sanpasaurus

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Sanpasaurus was named by Young (1944). Its type is Sanpasaurus yaoi.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Weishampel and Horner (1990).

It was assigned to Ornithopoda by Huene (1958); to Camptosauridae by Huene (1959); to Sauropoda by Tatarinov (1964); to Iguanodontidae by Young (1944), Romer (1956), Kuhn (1964), Thulborn (1974), Dong et al. (1983), Zhao (1983), He (1984); to Sauropoda by Romer (1966), Dong (1992); and to Sauropoda by Upchurch (1995), McPhee et al. (2016).

Species
S. yaoi (type species)
Entered
by M. Carrano on 2005-04-25; modified by M. Carrano on 2013-10-27

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1944Sanpasaurus Young p. 190 figs. Pl. 1, 2:2, 3:1
1956Sanpasaurus Romer p. 629
1958Sanpasaurus Huene p. 206
1959Sanpasaurus Huene p. 121
1964Sanpasaurus Kuhn p. 12
1964Sanpasaurus Tatarinov p. 552
1966Sanpasaurus Romer p. 370
1974Sanpasaurus Thulborn p. 172
1983Sanpasaurus Dong et al.
1983Sanpasaurus Zhao p. 302
1984Sanpasaurus He p. 71
1992Sanpasaurus Dong pp. 51-53
1995Sanpasaurus Upchurch p. 252
2016Sanpasaurus McPhee et al.

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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
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Sauropodomorpha(Huene 1932)
—Massopoda
—Sauropodiformes
—Sauropoda()
genusSanpasaurus

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.

G. †Sanpasaurus Young 1944
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†Sanpasaurus yaoi Young 1944
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available