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Proa valdearinnoensis

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Proa valdearinnoensis was named by McDonald et al. (2012). Its type specimen is MAP AR-1/19, a partial skeleton (a partial skeleton consisting of a disarticulated but associated skull including the premaxillae, partial maxillae, quadrates, supraorbitals, articulated brainc), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Santa Maria Mine, Ariño (AR-1), which is in an Albian mire/swamp coal/mudstone in the Escucha Formation of Spain.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2012Proa valdearinnoensis McDonald et al. pp. 62-63 figs. 1-9
2013Proa valdearinnoensis Gasca et al. p. 72
2013Proa valdearinnoensis Kirkland et al. p. 2
2013Proa valdearinnoensis Royo-Torres et al. p. 118
2013Proa valdearinnoensis Zheng et al.
2014Proa valdearinnoensis Gasulla et al. p. 19
2015Proa valdearinnoensis Verdú et al. p. 256
2016Proa valdearinnoensis Fuentes Vidarte et al. p. 435
2016Proa valdearinnoensis Gasulla et al. p. 75
2018Proa valdearinnoensis Gates et al. p. 9
2021Proa valdearinnoensis Santos-Cubedo et al. p. 15
2022Proa valdearinnoensis Ji and Zhang p. 6

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Ornithischia()
Genasauria
Cerapoda
Ornithopoda()
Clypeodonta
Iguanodontia()
Dryomorpha
Styracosterna
Hadrosauriformes
genusProa
speciesvaldearinnoensis

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.

Proa valdearinnoensis McDonald et al. 2012
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
A. T. McDonald et al. 2012Diagnosed by a single autapomorphy: predentary comes to a point at its rostral margin, with divergent lateral processes. Also diagnosed by the following unique combination of characters: dentary tooth row is convex dorsally in lateral view (otherwise known in only Owenodon hoggii [Galton 2009], and this might be due to crushing [Norman 2012]; if so, this feature would be another autapomorphy of Proa); dentary tooth row extends caudal to the base of the coronoid process; platform between the dentary tooth row and the base of the coronoid process; coronoid process expanded along rostral and caudal margins; maxilla lacks a rostrodorsal process; quadrate straight in lateral view; ilium with dorsal margin convex dorsally, non-pendant supraacetabular process, and postacetabular process that tapers without a break in slope along its dorsal margin; cranial pubic process concave along its dorsal margin but lacks expansion of distal end.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: gregariouso
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: herbivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:40:05
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:40:05
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875

Age range: Early/Lower Albian or 112.03000 to 109.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0Spain (Aragón) Ornithopoda indet. (type locality: 136754)