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Cymatosaurus minor
Taxonomy
Cymatosaurus minor was named by Rieppel and Wernburg (1998). Its type specimen is NHMS-GT 21, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ilm Valley, near Hetschburg, which is in an Anisian marine horizon in the Jena Formation of Germany.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1998 | Cymatosaurus minor Rieppel and Wernburg pp. 578-583 figs. 1-3 |
| 2014 | Cymatosaurus minor Sander et al. |
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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.
†Cymatosaurus minor Rieppel and Wernburg 1998
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| O. Rieppel and R. Wernburg 1998 | "A relatively small species of Cymatosaurus distinguished from all other species by a comparatively long and/or a relatively narrow upper temporal fossa, by the presence of a parietal sagittal crest, by the anterior extent of the parietals, which reach to a level well in front of the posterior margins of the orbits, and by the fused vomers." |
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, subp = subphylum, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||