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Lystrosaurus georgi

Anomodontia - Lystrosauridae

Taxonomy
Lystrosaurus georgi was named by Kalandadze (1975). Its type specimen is PIN 3447/1, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Astashikha I, PIN 3447, which is in an Induan terrestrial claystone in the Vokhmian Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1975Lystrosaurus georgi Kalandadze
2000Lystrosaurus georgi Battail and Surkov
2005Lystrosaurus georgi Surkov et al.
2008Lystrosaurus georgi Ivakhnenko

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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
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
orderAnomodontiaOwen 1859
orderDicynodontia()
—DicynodontoideaCluver and King 1983
familyLystrosauridae
genusLystrosaurusCope 1870
speciesgeorgi

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.

†Lystrosaurus georgi Kalandadze 1975
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: herbivoreg
Created: 2009-01-03 20:48:45
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:48:45
Source: g = genus, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Benton 1983, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Induan or 252.17000 to 251.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Induan252.17 - 251.2Russian Federation (Nizhnii Novgorod) Lystrosaurus georgi (type locality: 189460)