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Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis
Taxonomy
Valdosaurus nigeriensis was named by Galton and Taquet (1982). Its type specimen is MNHN GRD 332, a set of postcrania (femur), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Niveau des Innocents, Gadoufaoua, which is in an Aptian terrestrial horizon in the Elrhaz Formation of Niger.
It was recombined as Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis by Galton (2009), McDonald et al. (2010), Zheng et al. (2013), Verdú et al. (2015), Fuentes Vidarte et al. (2016), Fanti et al. (2016), Madzia et al. (2018), Dieudonné et al. (2020) and Verdú et al. (2021).
It was recombined as Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis by Galton (2009), McDonald et al. (2010), Zheng et al. (2013), Verdú et al. (2015), Fuentes Vidarte et al. (2016), Fanti et al. (2016), Madzia et al. (2018), Dieudonné et al. (2020) and Verdú et al. (2021).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1982 | Valdosaurus nigeriensis Galton and Taquet pp. 153-154 figs. pl. 1:1-17 |
| 1983 | Valdosaurus nigeriensis Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44 |
| 1984 | Valdosaurus nigeriensis Molnar p. 154 |
| 1984 | Valdosaurus nigeriensis Taquet p. 82 |
| 1990 | Valdosaurus nigeriensis Sues and Norman p. 500 |
| 1992 | Valdosaurus nigeriensis Molnar p. 266 |
| 1997 | Valdosaurus nigeriensis Currie and Padian p. 369 |
| 1997 | Valdosaurus nigeriensis Ryan p. 197 |
| 2001 | Valdosaurus nigeriensis Naish and Martill p. 84 |
| 2002 | Valdosaurus nigeniensis Buchholz p. 22 |
| 2004 | Valdosaurus nigeriensis Norman p. 415 |
| 2007 | Valdosaurus nigeriensis Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. p. 10 |
| 2008 | Valdosaurus nigeriensis Butler et al. p. 8 |
| 2009 | Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Galton p. 239 |
| 2010 | Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis McDonald et al. p. 33 fig. 39 |
| 2013 | Valdosaurus nigeriensis Bertozzo et al. p. 119 |
| 2013 | Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Zheng et al. |
| 2015 | Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Verdú et al. p. 256 |
| 2016 | Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Fanti et al. p. 267 |
| 2016 | Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Fuentes Vidarte et al. p. 440 |
| 2018 | Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Madzia et al. p. 968 |
| 2020 | Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Dieudonné et al. |
| 2021 | Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Verdú et al. p. 4 |
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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.
†Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Galton and Taquet 1982
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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