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Lukousaurus

Reptilia

Taxonomy

Lukousaurus was named by Young (1940).

It was assigned to Coelurosauria by Young (1946); to Procompsognathidae by Romer (1966); to Teratosauridae by Rozhdestvensky (1977); to Coelurosauria by Young (1940), Young (1948) and Zhao (1983); to Theropoda by Welles (1984); to Podokesauridae by Romer (1956), Huene (1959), Tatarinov (1964), Simmons (1965), Charig (1967), Steel (1970), Anderson and Cruickshank (1978), Battail (1986), Carroll (1988) and Dong (1992); and to Crocodylomorpha by Irmis (2004).

Species

L. yini

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1940	Lukousaurus Young p. 237
1946	Lukousaurus Young p. 8
1948	Lukousaurus Young p. 75
1956	Lukousaurus Romer p. 611
1959	Lukousaurus Huene p. 120
1964	Lukousaurus Tatarinov p. 530
1965	Lukousaurus Simmons p. 53
1966	Loukousaurus Romer p. 369
1967	Lukousaurus Charig p. 713
1970	Lukousaurus Steel p. 12
1977	Lukousaurus Rozhdestvensky p. 111
1978	Lukousaurus Anderson and Cruickshank p. 31
1983	Lukousaurus Zhao p. 302
1984	Lukousaurus Welles p. 177
1986	Lukousaurus Battail p. 48
1988	Lukousaurus Carroll
1992	Lukousaurus Dong p. 164
2004	Lukousaurus Irmis

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota

Rank	Name	Author
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
—	Pseudosuchia	(Zittel 1890)
—	Suchia	Krebs 1974
—	Paracrocodylomorpha
—	Loricata	(Merrem 1820)
—	Crocodylomorpha	()
genus	Lukousaurus

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.

G. †Lukousaurus Young 1940

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†Lukousaurus yini Young 1940

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Diet:

carnivoresubo

Created:

2009-01-03 20:38:45

Modified:

2009-01-03 22:38:45

Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Carroll 1988, Benton 1983, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Hettangian to the top of the Sinemurian or 201.30000 to 190.80000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Hettangian	201.3 - 199.3	China (Yunnan)	L. yini (49501 49503)
Sinemurian	199.3 - 190.8	China (Yunnan)	L. yini (49773 78993)