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Dolabrosaurus aquatilis

Reptilia - Drepanosauridae

Taxonomy
Dolabrosaurus aquatilis was named by Berman and Reisz (1992). Its type specimen is CM 28589, a set of postcrania (Partial skeleton), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is base of Mesa Prieto, which is in a Norian terrestrial horizon in the Chinle Formation of New Mexico. It is the type species of Dolabrosaurus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1992Dolabrosaurus aquatilis Berman and Reisz
2010Dolabrosaurus aquatilis Renesto et al. p. 21

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Drepanosauromorpha
familyDrepanosauridae
genusDolabrosaurus
speciesaquatilis

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.

†Dolabrosaurus aquatilis Berman and Reisz 1992
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
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: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Norian or 227.30000 to 205.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian227.3 - 205.7USA (New Mexico) Dolabrosaurus aquatilis (type locality: 75671)