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Kosmodraco dakotensis
Taxonomy
Simoedosaurus dakotensis was named by Erickson (1987). Its type specimen is SMM P76.10.1, a skeleton (a partly disarticulated skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 2 miles north of Judson, which is in a Tiffanian terrestrial horizon in the Slope Formation of North Dakota. It is the type species of Kosmodraco.
It was recombined as Kosmodraco dakotensis by Brownstein (2022).
It was recombined as Kosmodraco dakotensis by Brownstein (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1987 | Simoedosaurus dakotensis Erickson p. 237 |
| 2022 | Kosmodraco dakotensis Brownstein |
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†Kosmodraco dakotensis Erickson 1987
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| B. R. Erickson 1987 | Differs from Simeodosaurus lemoinei in having shorter snout, with broader base, muzzle only 1/3 total length of the skull, elongated lachrymal, skull roofing bones more extensive, postorbital-parietal contact extending far forward of supratemporal fenestra, and less tooth size differentiation. Vertebrae have distinctive features such as: greater length of centrum and neural arch of axis; and less development of ventral carina on all cervicals. The femur is proportionately lighter and longer |
Measurements
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| Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||