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Meyasaurus faurai
Taxonomy
Meyasaurus faurai was named by Vidal (1915). Its type specimen is MGB 534 (Museu Geologia de Barcelona, a set of postcrania (partial postcranial skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is La Pedrera de Meià, El Montsec, which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large limestone in the La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation of Spain.
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1915 | Meyasaurus faurai Vidal |
| 1963 | Meyasaurus faurai Cocude-Michel |
| 1979 | Rubiessaurus lapicidinarum Gomez Pallerola p. 341 figs. photo 8 |
| 1983 | Meyasaurus faurai Estes p. 193 fig. 54e |
| 1998 | Meyasaurus faurai Evans and Barbadillo p. 6 |
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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.
†Meyasaurus faurai Vidal 1915
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Invalid names: Rubiessaurus lapicidinarum Gomez Pallerola 1979 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Behler and King 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Barremian or 125.77000 to 121.40000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Barremian | Spain | Rubiessaurus lapicidinarum (152685) | |
| Early/Lower Barremian | Spain (Cataluña) | Meyasaurus faurai (type locality: 85293) |