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Spheroolithus maiasauroides

Osteichthyes - Spheroolithidae

Taxonomy
Spheroolithus maiasauroides was named by Mikhailov (1994). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is PIN 4228-2, an egg, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Baga-Tariach [SMPE], which is in a Campanian/Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Spheroolithus maiasauroides Mikhailov p. 154 figs. Pl. X, fig. 2
1997Spheroolithus maiasauroides Mikhailov p. 48
2000Spheroolithus maiasauroides Mikhailov p. 562
2001Spheroolithus maiasauroides Hirsch p. 384
2010Spheroolithus maiasauroides Jackson and Varricchio p. 1144
2014Spheroolithus maiasauroides Moreno-Azanza et al. p. 84
2014Spheroolithus maiasauroides Sellés et al. p. 725
2023Spheroolithus maiasauroides Tanaka et al. p. 182

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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
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
RankNameAuthor
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Cerapoda
—Ornithopoda()
—Clypeodonta
—Iguanodontia()
—Dryomorpha
—Styracosterna
—Hadrosauriformes
—Hadrosauroidea()
familySpheroolithidae
genusSpheroolithus
speciesmaiasauroides

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.

†Spheroolithus maiasauroides Mikhailov 1994
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available