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Monjurosuchus splendens

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Monjurosuchus splendens was named by Endo (1940) [original type "reportedly lost during World War II" (Gao et al. 2000)]. Its type specimen is Former Central National Museum of Manchoukou no. 3671 (holotype, destroyed); GMV 2167 (neotype), a partial skeleton (nearly complete skeleton), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Tanankou, which is in a Barremian/Aptian lacustrine - large shale/sandstone in the Yixian Formation of China. It is the type species of Monjurosuchus.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Monjurosuchus splendens Endo p. 3 figs. 1-2
1942Rhynchosaurus orientalis Endo and Shikama pp. 2-6 figs. 1-3
2000Monjurosuchus splendens Gao et al. p. 417
2005Monjurosuchus splendens Gao and Fox p. 438

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Eosuchia()
—Neodiapsida
—SauriaGauthier 1984
—Choristodera()
genusMonjurosuchus
speciessplendens

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.

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Invalid names: Rhynchosaurus orientalis Endo and Shikama 1942 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
K. -Q. Gao et al. 2000A medium-sized (snout-vent length up to 300 mm) choristoderan reptile characterized by the possession of a small supratemporal fenestra; infratemporal fenestra secondarily closed by expansion of postorbital, quadratojugal and squamosal; frontal markedly narrow and constricted; gastralia extremely slender, three or four rows to each body segment, and five elements to each row
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Barremian to the top of the Early/Lower Aptian or 125.77000 to 119.57000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Barremian - Early/Lower Aptian125.77 - 119.57China (Liaoning) Monjurosuchus splendens (13937 67611 type locality: 73687 117527 117528)