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Sapheosaurus thiollierei

Reptilia - Saphaeosauridae

Taxonomy
Sapheosaurus thiollierei was named by von Meyer (1851). Its type specimen is Museum de Lyon - Gisement: Cerin (Ain) no. 15672 (part) and 15673 (counterpart), a partial skeleton (complete skeleton minus skull), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bugey, Cerin, which is in a Kimmeridgian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in France.

It was recombined as Piocormus thiollierei by Wagner (1858).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1851Sapheosaurus thiollierei von Meyer p. 10 fig. 2
1858Piocormus thiollierei Wagner
1862Sauranodon incisivus Jourdan
1892Sauranodon incisivus Lortet p. 30
1963Sapheosaurus thiollierei Cocude-Michel
1981Sapheosaurus thiollierei Fabre

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Eosuchia()
—Neodiapsida
—SauriaGauthier 1984
—Lepidosauromorpha(Benton 1983)
superorderLepidosauria()
—Sphenodontia()
infraorderEusphenodontia
—Neosphenodontia
familySaphaeosauridae()
genusSapheosaurusvon Meyer 1850
speciesthiollierei

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.

†Sapheosaurus thiollierei von Meyer 1851
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Invalid names: Sauranodon incisivus Jourdan 1862 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Kimmeridgian or 157.30000 to 152.10000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kimmeridgian157.3 - 152.1France (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) Sapheosaurus thiollierei (type locality: 191086)