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Pisanosaurus
Taxonomy
Pisanosaurus was named by Casamiquela (1967). Its type is Pisanosaurus mertii.
It was assigned to Ornithopoda by Reig (1970); to Fabrosauridae by Thulborn (1971); to Pisanosauridae by Casamiquela (1967) and Bonaparte (1973); to Ornithischia by Bakker and Galton (1974); to Hypsilophodontidae by Thulborn (1970), Galton (1972), Thulborn (1972), Galton (1973), Galton (1974) and Colbert (1981); to Heterodontosauridae by Charig and Crompton (1974), Thulborn (1974), Bonaparte (1976), Bonaparte (1978), Anderson and Cruickshank (1978), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Battail (1986), Carroll (1988) and Olshevsky and Ford (1994); to Ornithischia by Bonaparte (1969), Bonaparte (1984), Sereno et al. (1993) and Godefroit and Cuny (1997); to Dinosauriformes by Agnolin (2015); and to Ornithischia by Benton (1990), Novas (1997), Ryan and Vickaryous (1997), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1999), Buchholz (2002), Rauhut (2003), Norman et al. (2004), Weishampel (2004), Langer and Benton (2006), Irmis et al. (2007), Butler et al. (2007), Butler et al. (2008), Irmis and Knoll (2008), Martínez and Alcober (2009), Langer et al. (2010), Han et al. (2012), Madzia et al. (2018), Martz and Small (2019) and Desojo et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Ornithopoda by Reig (1970); to Fabrosauridae by Thulborn (1971); to Pisanosauridae by Casamiquela (1967) and Bonaparte (1973); to Ornithischia by Bakker and Galton (1974); to Hypsilophodontidae by Thulborn (1970), Galton (1972), Thulborn (1972), Galton (1973), Galton (1974) and Colbert (1981); to Heterodontosauridae by Charig and Crompton (1974), Thulborn (1974), Bonaparte (1976), Bonaparte (1978), Anderson and Cruickshank (1978), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Battail (1986), Carroll (1988) and Olshevsky and Ford (1994); to Ornithischia by Bonaparte (1969), Bonaparte (1984), Sereno et al. (1993) and Godefroit and Cuny (1997); to Dinosauriformes by Agnolin (2015); and to Ornithischia by Benton (1990), Novas (1997), Ryan and Vickaryous (1997), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1999), Buchholz (2002), Rauhut (2003), Norman et al. (2004), Weishampel (2004), Langer and Benton (2006), Irmis et al. (2007), Butler et al. (2007), Butler et al. (2008), Irmis and Knoll (2008), Martínez and Alcober (2009), Langer et al. (2010), Han et al. (2012), Madzia et al. (2018), Martz and Small (2019) and Desojo et al. (2020).
Species
P. mertii (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1967 | Pisanosaurus Casamiquela |
| 1969 | Pisanosaurus Bonaparte p. 475 |
| 1970 | Pisanosaurus Reig p. 292 |
| 1970 | Pisanosaurus Thulborn p. 428 fig. 9 |
| 1971 | Pisanosaurus Thulborn p. 77 |
| 1972 | Pisanosaurus Galton p. 465 |
| 1972 | Pisanosaurus Thulborn p. 57 |
| 1973 | Pisanosaurus Bonaparte p. 113 |
| 1973 | Pisanosaurus Galton p. 17 |
| 1974 | Pisanosaurus Bakker and Galton p. 170 |
| 1974 | Pisanosaurus Charig and Crompton p. 188 |
| 1974 | Pisanosaurus Galton p. 1064 |
| 1974 | Pisanosaurus Thulborn p. 171 |
| 1976 | Pisanosaurus Bonaparte p. 815 |
| 1978 | Pisanosaurus Anderson and Cruickshank p. 31 |
| 1978 | Pisanosaurus Bonaparte p. 332 |
| 1981 | Pisanosaurus Colbert p. 50 |
| 1983 | Pisanosaurus Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44 |
| 1984 | Pisanosaurus Bonaparte p. 128 |
| 1986 | Pisanosaurus Battail p. 50 |
| 1988 | Pisanosaurus Carroll |
| 1990 | Pisanosaurus Benton p. 25 |
| 1993 | Pisanosaurus Sereno et al. p. 65 fig. 2 |
| 1994 | Pisanosaurus Olshevsky and Ford p. 91 |
| 1997 | Pisanosaurus Godefroit and Cuny p. 21 |
| 1997 | Pisanosaurus Novas p. 678 |
| 1997 | Pisanosaurus Ryan and Vickaryous p. 169 |
| 1997 | Pisanosaurus Sereno p. 440 fig. 2 |
| 1999 | Pisanosaurus Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2 |
| 2002 | Pisanosaurus Buchholz p. 20 |
| 2003 | Pisanosaurus Rauhut p. 16 |
| 2004 | Pisanosaurus Norman et al. p. 326 |
| 2004 | Pisanosaurus Weishampel p. 323 |
| 2006 | Pisanosaurus Langer and Benton p. 346 fig. 15 |
| 2007 | Pisanosaurus Butler et al. p. 2044 |
| 2007 | Pisanosaurus Irmis et al. p. 13 |
| 2008 | Pisanosaurus Butler et al. pp. 17-18 figs. 2-4 |
| 2008 | Pisanosaurus Irmis and Knoll p. 121 |
| 2009 | Pisanosaurus Martínez and Alcober p. 11 fig. 10 |
| 2010 | Pisanosaurus Langer et al. p. 93 |
| 2012 | Pisanosaurus Han et al. p. 1391 fig. 14 |
| 2015 | Pisanosaurus Agnolin p. 4 |
| 2018 | Pisanosaurus Madzia et al. p. 973 fig. 4 |
| 2019 | Pisanosaurus Martz and Small p. 53 |
| 2020 | Pisanosaurus Desojo et al. p. 28 |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Peczkis 1995, Marsh 1875 | |||||