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Sakurasaurus shokawensis
Taxonomy
Sakurasaurus shokawensis was named by Evans and Manabe (1999). Its type specimen is IBEF VP 17, a mandible (Left mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is KO2 locality, Shokawa Village, Kobudani Valley, which is in a Hauterivian/Aptian fine channel fill sandstone/mudstone in the Okurodani Formation of Japan. It is the type species of Sakurasaurus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1999 | Sakurasaurus shokawensis Evans and Manabe pp. 890-894 figs. 1-5 |
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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.
†Sakurasaurus shokawensis Evans and Manabe 1999
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| S. E. Evans and M. Manabe 1999 | A scincomorph lizard characterised by the following combination of derived features :mandible short and robust with deep robust post-dentary region; posterolateral dentary process apparently overlapping coronoid laterally; medial surface of maxilla has facets for prefrontal and lacrimal and suggests the maxilla met the frontal to separate nasals and prefrontals; heterodont pleurodont dentition, with curved weakly keeled anterior teeth and short, blunt striated posterior teeth; frontals paired, sculptured and with strongly forked anterior nasal margins; cristae craniiwell-developed but not approaching in the midline; fronto-parietal suture transverse but with lateral processes separated by central interdigitated region; angles of narrow dorsolateral facets suggest postfrontal bone was furcate, clasping fronto-parietal suture; anterolateral borders of parietal without strong flanges to underlie frontals but with small pocket facets which apparently received the posterolateral corners of the frontals; postparietal processes short, triangular and almost horizontal in orientation; processes separated in midline by deep pit for processus ascendens bounded by short flanking processes. |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Hauterivian to the top of the Aptian or 132.60000 to 113.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Hauterivian - Aptian | Japan (Gifu) | Sakurasaurus shokawensis (type locality: 50310) |