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Tupilakosaurus heilmani
Taxonomy
Tupilakosaurus heilmani was named by Nielsen (1954). Its type specimen is specimen A, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cape Stosch, West of River 7, which is in an Induan coastal horizon in the Wordy Creek Formation of Greenland. It is the type species of Tupilakosaurus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1954 | Tupilakosaurus heilmani Nielsen p. 10 figs. 1-11; Pl. 1, 2:2 |
| 2014 | Tupilakosaurus heilmani Schoch and Milner p. 36 |
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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.
†Tupilakosaurus heilmani Nielsen 1954
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Uhen 2004, Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988 | |||||