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Dinodontosaurus brevirostris

Osteichthyes - Anomodontia

Taxonomy
Dinodontosaurus brevirostris was named by Cox (1968). Its type specimen is Museo de la Plata 65-XI-14-4, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Chañares River, 6 miles east, which is in a Ladinian fluvial-lacustrine horizon in the Chañares Formation of Argentina.

It was synonymized subjectively with Dinodontosaurus oliveirai by Lucas and Harris (1996).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
D. platiceps

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1968Chanaria platyceps Cox p. 2
1968Dinodontosaurus brevirostris Cox p. 5
1968Dinodontosaurus platygnathus Cox p. 16
1979Jachaleria platygnathus Keyser and Cruickshank
2021Dinodontosaurus brevirostris Kammerer and Ordoñez pp. 29 - 32 figs. 23A–C, 24A–C, 25A, B, 26B, C, F.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
orderAnomodontiaOwen 1859
orderDicynodontia()
—DicynodontoideaCluver and King 1983
—Kannemeyeriiformes(Huene 1948)
genusDinodontosaurusRomer 1943
speciesbrevirostris

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.

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Invalid names: Chanaria platyceps Cox 1968 [synonym], Dinodontosaurus platygnathus Cox 1968 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: herbivoreg
Created: 2009-01-03 20:50:35
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:50:35
Source: g = genus, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Kiessling 2004, Benton 1983, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Longobardian to the top of the Ladinian or 239.48000 to 237.00000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ladinian241.464 - 237.0Argentina (La Rioja) Chanaria platyceps, Dinodontosaurus brevirostris (type locality: 105532) Dinodontosaurus platygnathus (105533)
Longobardian - Judithian239.48 - 72.2Argentina (La Rioja) Dinodontosaurus brevirostris, Dinodontosaurus platygnathus (26092)