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Austrosaurus mckillopi

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Austrosaurus mckillopi was named by Longman (1933). Its type specimen is QM F2316, a set of postcrania (Presacral vertebra and ribs), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Whitewood Paddock, Clutha Station, which is in an Albian marine lime mudstone in the Allaru Mudstone Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Austrosaurus.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Mannion et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1933Austrosaurus mckillopi Longman
1934Austrosaurus mckillopi Stromer p. 63
1939Austrosaurus mckillopi Kuhn p. 112
1944Austrosaurus mckillopi Huene p. 449
1970Austrosaurus mckillopi Steel p. 82
1980Austrosaurus mckillopi Molnar p. 54
1981Austrosaurus mckillopi Coombs, Jr. and Molnar p. 358
1981Austrosaurus mckillopi Olshevsky p. 34
1982Austrosaurus mckillopi Molnar p. 622
1990Austrosaurus mckillopi McIntosh p. 398
1991Austrosaurus mckillopi Molnar p. 645
1992Austrosaurus mckillopi Molnar p. 265
1996Austrosaurus mckillopi Molnar p. 645
2001Austrosaurus mckillopi Molnar p. 139
2002Austrosaurus mckillopi Wilson p. 248
2004Austrosaurus mckillopi Upchurch et al. p. 267
2005Austrosaurus mckillopi Apesteguía p. 333 fig. 15.5
2005Austrosaurus mckillopi Molnar and Salisbury p. 457
2006Austrosaurus mckillopi Scanlon p. 278
2010Austrosaurus mckillopi Molnar p. 422
2011Austrosaurus mckillopi Molnar p. 332–333
2014Austrosaurus mckillopi Mocho et al.
2017Austrosaurus mckillopi Poropat et al.
2020Austrosaurus mckillopi Poropat et al. p. 1
2021Austrosaurus mckillopi Frauenfelder et al. p. 354
2021Austrosaurus mckillopi Rigby et al. p. 1
2023Austrosaurus mckillopi Poropat et al. p. 162

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Sauropoda()
—Gravisauria
—Eusauropoda
—Neosauropoda
—Macronaria
—Titanosauriformes
—Somphospondyli
genusAustrosaurus
speciesmckillopi

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.

†Austrosaurus mckillopi Longman 1933
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteinfrao
Entire body: yesinfrao
Adult length: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult width: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult height: 10 to < 100infrao
Thickness: thickinfrao
Architecture: compact or denseinfrao
Form: sphericalinfrao
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partsinfrao
Grouping: gregariousinfrao
Environment: terrestrialinfrao
Locomotion: actively mobileinfrao
Life habit: ground dwellinginfrao
Diet: herbivoreinfrao
Reproduction: oviparousinfrao
Dispersal: direct/internalinfrao
Dispersal 2: mobileinfrao
Created: 2004-12-14 12:49:10
Modified: 2004-12-14 14:49:10
Source: infrao = infraorder
Reference: Marsh 1875

Age range: Late/Upper Albian or 105.30000 to 99.60000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Australia (Queensland) Austrosaurus mckillopi (type locality: 35273)