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Dorsetisaurus hebetidens
Taxonomy
Dorsetisaurus hebetidens was named by Hoffstetter (1967). Its type specimen is BMNH R8109, a maxilla (incomplete right maxilla), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mammal Bed, Durlston Bay (DB83), which is in a Berriasian marine horizon in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1967 | Dorsetisaurus hebetidens Hoffstetter p. 369 fig. 13 |
| 1983 | Dorsetisaurus hebetidens Estes pp. 133-134 |
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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.
†Dorsetisaurus hebetidens Hoffstetter 1967
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Bambach et al. 2007, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Middle Berriasian or 141.00000 to 139.10000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Berriasian | United Kingdom (England) | Dorsetisaurus hebetidens (type locality: 72142) |