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Costasaurus rusconi

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Salamandra rusconi was named by Costa (1851). Its type specimen is UNIP specimen and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Civita di Pietraroja (upper plattenkalk), which is in an Albian basinal (carbonate) mudstone/wackestone in Italy. It is the type species of Costasaurus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Polysemia apennina by D'Erasmo (1914); it was considered a nomen dubium by Estes (1983); it was recombined as Costasaurus rusconi by Barbera and Macuglia (1988) and Barbera and Macuglia (1991).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1851Salamandra rusconi Costa p. 5
1864Salamandra apennina Costa p. 24
1914Polysemia apennina D'Erasmo p. 58 figs. Pl 5, fig 3
1988Costasaurus rusconi Barbera and Macuglia p. 571
1991Costasaurus rusconi Barbera and Macuglia p. 421

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Squamata()
suborderLacertilia(Owen 1842)
genusCostasaurus
speciesrusconi(Costa 1851)

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.

†Costasaurus rusconi Costa 1851
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Invalid names: Polysemia apennina Costa 1864 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Early/Lower Albian or 112.03000 to 109.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0Italy (Campania) Salamandra rusconi (type locality: 112631)