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Melosaurus kamaensis
Taxonomy
Melosaurus kamaensis was named by Gubin (1991). Its type specimen is PIN 683/1, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mamadysh, PIN 683, which is in an Ufimian/Kazanian terrestrial horizon in the Belebey Formation of the Russian Federation.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1991 | Melosaurus kamaensis Gubin |
| 1995 | Melosaurus kamaensis Golubev |
| 2000 | Melosaurus kamaensis Schoch and Milner |
| 2000 | Melosaurus kamaensis Shishkin et al. |
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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.
†Melosaurus kamaensis Gubin 1991
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Uhen 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Ufimian to the top of the Late/Upper Kazanian or 277.30000 to 266.90000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Ufimian - Late/Upper Kazanian | Russian Federation (Tatarstan) | Melosaurus kamaensis (type locality: 187316) |