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Nodosaurus textilis

Reptilia - Nodosauridae

Taxonomy
Nodosaurus textilis was named by Marsh (1889). Its type specimen is YPM 1815, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is west slope, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Cenomanian marginal marine horizon in the Frontier Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Nodosaurus. It was considered monophyletic by Vickaryous et al. (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1889Nodosaurus textilis Marsh p. 173
1896Nodosaurus textilis Depéret p. 185
1896Nodosaurus textilis Marsh figs. Pl. 75:5
1899Nodosaurus textilis Lambe p. 69
1899Nodosaurus textilis Marsh
1901Nodosaurus textilis Nopcsa p. 214
1902Nodosaurus textilis Hay p. 497
1915Nodosaurus textilis Hennig p. 14
1921Nodosaurus textilis Lull pp. 100-101
1927Nodosaurus textilis Huene p. 261
1928Nodosaurus textilis Perrier p. 3088
1930Nodosaurus textilis Hay p. 236
1930Nodosaurus textilis Russell p. 138
1964Nodosaurus textilis Kuhn p. 48
1964Nodosaurus testilis Tatarinov p. 575
1970Nodosaurus textilis Bodily p. 37
1980Nodosaurus textilis Molnar p. 81
1994Nodosaurus textilis Molnar and Wiffen p. 695
1996Nodosaurus textilis Coombs, Jr. and Deméré p. 319
1997Nodosaurus textilis Turner p. 787
1998Nodosaurus textilis Carpenter and Kirkland p. 251
1998Nodosaurus textilis Knoll et al. p. 62
2000Nodosaurus textilis Ford p. 174
2001Nodosaurus textilis Blows p. 377
2001Nodosaurus textilis Carpenter p. 457
2001Nodosaurus textilis Ford and Kirkland p. 247
2003Nodosaurus textilis Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola p. 161
2004Nodosaurus textilis Vickaryous et al. p. 367
2009Nodosaurus textilis Osi and Makádi p. 236
2013Nodosaurus textilis Kirkland et al. p. 7
2014Nodosaurus textilis Han et al. p. 14 fig. 11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Eugnathostomata
—Teleostomi(Bonaparte 1836)
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Thyreophora()
—Ankylosauria()
familyNodosauridae
genusNodosaurus
speciestextilis

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.

†Nodosaurus textilis Marsh 1889
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: gregariouso
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: herbivoreo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2005-08-25 06:02:56
Modified: 2005-08-25 08:02:56
Source: g = genus, o = order
References: Marsh 1875, Peczkis 1995

Age range: Middle Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9USA (Wyoming) Nodosaurus textilis (type locality: 28437)