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Oplosaurus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Oplosaurus was named by Gervais (1852). Its type is Oplosaurus armatus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Cetiosaurus by Dollo (1889); it was synonymized subjectively with Pelorosaurus by Lydekker (1889), Lydekker (1890), Huene (1909), Romer (1956), Romer (1966), Steel (1970) and McIntosh (1990); it was synonymized subjectively with Ornithopsis by Zittel (1890); it was considered a nomen dubium by Naish and Martill (2001).

It was assigned to Mosasauridae by Gervais (1852), Gervais (1853) and Gervais (1859); to Sauropoda by Winkler (1893); to Stegosauridae by Nopcsa (1901); to Morosauridae by von Zittel (1911); to Sauropoda by Upchurch et al. (2004); to Camarasauridae by Sánchez-Hernández et al. (2007); and to Macronaria by Naish and Martill (2007).

Species
O. armatus (type species)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1852Oplosaurus Gervais p. 263
1853Oplosaurus Gervais p. 471
1859Oplosaurus Gervais p. 464
1893Oplosaurus Winkler p. 101
1901Hoplosaurus Nopcsa p. 214
1911Oplosaurus von Zittel p. 287
2004Oplosaurus Upchurch et al. p. 261
2007Oplosaurus Naish and Martill p. 499
2007Oplosaurus Sánchez-Hernández et al. p. 199

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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
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Sauropoda()
genusOplosaurus

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. †Oplosaurus Gervais 1852
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†Oplosaurus armatus Gervais 1859
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available