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Anarosaurus pumilio

Reptilia - Eosauropterygia - Pachypleurosauridae

Discussion

"The holotype was originally housed at the Institut und Museum fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Georg-August-Universitat, Gottingen, but can no longer be located today (lost or destroyed during World War II; H. Jahnke, in litt. 1991)."

Taxonomy
Anarosaurus pumilio was named by Dames (1890). It is not extant. Its type locality is Anarosaurus pumilio holotype locality, which is in an Anisian terrestrial marl in Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Anarosaurus pumilio Dames p. 74 figs. 1, 2
1971Anarosaurus pumilio Kuhn p. 18
1995Anarosaurus pumilio Rieppel and Lin p. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
suborderSauropterygia
orderEosauropterygia
superfamilyPachypleurosauroidea
familyPachypleurosauridae(Nopcsa 1928)
genusAnarosaurusDames 1890
speciespumilioDames 1890

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.

Anarosaurus pumilio Dames 1890
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubo
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 10:38:36
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:38:36
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Anisian or 246.70000 to 241.46400 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Anisian246.7 - 241.464Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt) Anarosaurus pumilio (type locality: 195570)