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Anoplosaurus curtonotus

Reptilia - Nodosauridae

Taxonomy
Anoplosaurus curtonotus was named by Seeley (1879). Its type specimen is SMC B55731, R scapula (lectotype from among 77 syntypes), a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Reach, Cambridge, which is in a Cenomanian marine phosphorite in the Upper Greensand Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Acanthopholis curtonotus by Nopcsa (1902); it was considered a nomen dubium by Brinkmann (1988), Norman and Weishampel (1990).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Anoplosaurus curtonotus Seeley p. 600
1882Anoplosaurus curtonotus Sauvage p. 30
1882Anoplosaurus curtonotus Seeley p. 457
1890Anoplosaurus curtonotus Woodward and Sherborn p. 210
1901Anoplosaurus curtonotus Nopcsa p. 213
1902Acanthopholis curtonotus Nopcsa p. 102
1904Anoplosaurus curtonotus Lydekker pp. 60-61
1915Anoplosaurus curtonotus Hennig p. 13
1923Anoplosaurus curtonotus Nopcsa p. 193
1927Anoplosaurus curtonotus Huene p. 271
1934Anoplosaurus curtonotus Stromer p. 66
1964Anoplosaurus curtonotus Kuhn p. 8
1983Anoplosaurus curtonotus Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1999Anoplosaurus curtonotus Pereda Suberbiola and Barrett p. 186
2000Anoplosaurus curtonotus Ford p. 175
2001Anoplosaurus curtonotus Carpenter p. 457
2001Anoplosaurus curtonotus Carpenter et al. p. 213
2001Anoplosaurus curtonotus Pereda Suberbiola and Galton p. 203
2004Anoplosaurus curtonotus Vickaryous et al. p. 367
2007Anoplosaurus curtonotus Naish and Martill p. 496
2008Anoplosaurus curtonotus Naish and Martill p. 615
2014Anoplosaurus curtonotus Blows p. 61
2014Anoplosaurus curtonotus Blows and Honeysett p. 835

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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
genusAnoplosaurus
speciescurtonotus

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.

†Anoplosaurus curtonotus Seeley 1879
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
X. Pereda Suberbiola and P. M. Barrett 1999A small nodosaurid which can be distinguished from other nodosaurids by a thumb-like acromion process centrally placed on the scapula; an almost trapezoidal coracoid, wider anteroventrally than posterodorsally ; and a finger-like lesser trochanter separated laterally from the femoral shaft by a shallow, but short cleft (a full discussion of these features can be found below).
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
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: 2004-12-14 12:50:52
Modified: 2004-12-14 14:50:52
Source: o = order
Reference: Marsh 1875

Age range: Early/Lower Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9United Kingdom (England) Anoplosaurus curtonotus (type locality: 59408)