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Taxonomy
Calamospondylus foxi was named by Lydekker (1889). Its type specimen is BMNH R.901, a set of vertebrae (cervical vertebra), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Isle of Wight (general), which is in a Barremian/Aptian terrestrial horizon in the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Calamospondylus, Calamosaurus.
It was misspelled as Calamospondylus foxii by Nopcsa (1901), Huene (1923), Swinton (1936), Kuhn (1939), Steel (1970), Blows (1983) and Hutt et al. (1996); it was considered a nomen dubium by Naish et al. (2001); it was misspelled as Calamosaurus foxii by Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo (2003); it was considered a nomen dubium by Holtz et al. (2004); it was recombined as Calamosaurus foxi by Lydekker (1891), Van Den Broeck (1900), Molnar and Pledge (1980), Naish and Martill (2007) and Naish and Sweetman (2011).
It was misspelled as Calamospondylus foxii by Nopcsa (1901), Huene (1923), Swinton (1936), Kuhn (1939), Steel (1970), Blows (1983) and Hutt et al. (1996); it was considered a nomen dubium by Naish et al. (2001); it was misspelled as Calamosaurus foxii by Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo (2003); it was considered a nomen dubium by Holtz et al. (2004); it was recombined as Calamosaurus foxi by Lydekker (1891), Van Den Broeck (1900), Molnar and Pledge (1980), Naish and Martill (2007) and Naish and Sweetman (2011).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1889 | Calamospondylus foxi Lydekker pp. 119-121 fig. 1 |
1889 | Calamospondylus foxi Newton p. 260 |
1890 | Calamospondylus foxi Woodward and Sherborn p. 212 |
1891 | Calamosaurus foxi Lydekker pp. 42-43 |
1900 | Calamosaurus foxi Van Den Broeck p. 80ff |
1901 | Calamospondylus foxii Nopcsa p. 202 |
1923 | Calamospondylus foxi Huene p. 455 |
1936 | Calamospondylus foxi Swinton pp. 206-207 |
1939 | Calamospondylus foxi Kuhn p. 45 |
1970 | Calamospondylus foxi Steel p. 13 |
1980 | Calamosaurus foxi Molnar and Pledge p. 283 |
1983 | Calamospondylus foxi Blows p. 306 |
1996 | Calamospondylus foxi Hutt et al. p. 636 |
2003 | Calamosaurus foxii Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo p. 297 |
2007 | Calamosaurus foxi Naish and Martill p. 504 |
2011 | Calamosaurus foxi Naish and Sweetman |
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†Calamosaurus foxi Lydekker 1889
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available