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Zephyrosaurus schaffi
Taxonomy
Zephyrosaurus schaffi was named by Sues (1980). Its type specimen is MCZ 4392, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Wolf Creek Canyon (MCZ), which is in an Albian terrestrial sandstone in the Cloverly Formation of Montana.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1980 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Sues p. 53 figs. 2-18 |
| 1983 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44 |
| 1989 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Galton p. 218 |
| 1990 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Sues and Norman p. 500 |
| 1992 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Weishampel and Heinrich p. 171 |
| 1997 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Sues p. 357 |
| 2002 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Buchholz p. 19 |
| 2003 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Godefroit and Knoll p. 6 |
| 2003 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Kutter p. 69A |
| 2004 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Norman et al. p. 396 |
| 2004 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Stanford et al. p. 257 |
| 2008 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Butler et al. p. 11 |
| 2009 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Butler and Zhao p. 71 |
| 2009 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Galton p. 215 |
| 2012 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Han et al. p. 1391 fig. 14 |
| 2015 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Weems and Bachman p. 214 |
| 2016 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Hübner p. 323 |
| 2018 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Bell et al. p. 17 |
| 2019 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Andrzejewski et al. p. 8 |
| 2019 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Herne et al. p. 560 |
| 2020 | Zephyrosaurus schaffi Dieudonné et al. |
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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.
†Zephyrosaurus schaffi Sues 1980
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. J. Butler et al. 2008 | Prominent boss on anterolateral maxilla; short, massive, triangular palpebral; boss on jugal; postorbital with distinct projection into orbit; dentary/maxillary teeth with numerous subparallel ridges connecting to marginal denticles. |
Measurements
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| Reference: Marsh 1875 | |||||