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Melanosaurinae (disused)
Taxonomy
Melanosaurinae was named by Gilmore (1928). It is extant. Its type is Melanosaurus.
It was assigned to Xenosauridae by McDowell and Bogert (1954); and to Necrosauridae by Kuhn (1966).
It was assigned to Xenosauridae by McDowell and Bogert (1954); and to Necrosauridae by Kuhn (1966).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1928 | Melanosaurinae Gilmore |
| 1954 | Melanosaurinae McDowell and Bogert p. 131 |
| 1966 | Melanosaurinae Kuhn p. 58 |
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Subfm. Melanosaurinae Gilmore 1928
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| S. B. McDowell and C. M. Bogert 1954 | Osteoderms sutured to one another laterally, as in the Gerrhonotinae; skull depressed; teeth blunt; supratemporal fenestra large, the squamosal separated from the parietal. |
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988, Augé 2003, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Uintan or 46.20000 to 39.70000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Uintan | USA (California) | Melanosaurinae indet. (167831) |