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Soumyasaurus aenigmaticus
Taxonomy
Soumyasaurus aenigmaticus was named by Sarigul et al. (2018). Its type specimen is TTU-P11254, a partial skull (partial left dentary), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Miller's Ranch Quarry, which is in a Norian floodplain mudstone/sandstone in the Cooper Canyon Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Soumyasaurus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2018 | Soumyasaurus aenigmaticus Sarigul et al. |
| 2019 | Soumyasaurus aenigmaticus Martz and Small p. 2 |
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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.
†Soumyasaurus aenigmaticus Sarigul et al. 2018
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| V. Sarigul et al. 2018 | A minute silesaurid distinguishable from all other members of the clade except Asilisaurus kongwe Nesbitt et al., 2010 by having smooth and conical dentary teeth that have no expansion or curvature above the root. S. aenigmaticus differs from A. kongwe in having a Meckelian groove restricted to ventral margin of the dentary. Because the anterior portion of TTU-P11254b is not preserved, it remains unknown whether the dorsal margin of the anterior dentary of S. aenigmaticus is convex as in that of A. kongwe. Similarly, apical sides of the preserved teeth of S. aenigmaticus are mostly obliterated and cannot be compared with the teeth of A. kongwe that possess weakly serrated carinae at the tip of each crown. |
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||