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Sarcosaurus woodi

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Sarcosaurus woodi was named by Andrews (1921). Its type specimen is BMNH 4840/1, a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Barrow-on-Soar, which is in a Sinemurian marine horizon in the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Sarcosaurus.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Naish and Martill (2007).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1921Sarcosaurus woodi Andrews p. 575 figs. 1-2
1923Sarcosaurus woodi Huene p. 455
1932Sarcosaurus andrewsi Huene p. 51
1932Magnosaurus woodwardi Huene p. 219 figs. Pl. 43:1
1939Sarcosaurus woodi Kuhn p. 38
1939Sarcosaurus andrewsi Kuhn p. 39
1939Magnosaurus woodwardi Kuhn p. 68
1967Sarcosaurus woodi Charig p. 714
1967Sarcosaurus andrewsi Charig p. 715
1970Sarcosaurus andrewsi Steel p. 37
1970Sarcosaurus woodi Steel p. 37
1974Megalosaurus andrewsi Waldman p. 337
1980Megalosaurus andrewsi Molnar and Pledge p. 285 fig. 3
1984Sarcosaurus woodi Welles pp. 173-174
1986Sarcosaurus woodi Gauthier p. 9
1988Sarcosaurus woodi Paul p. 275
1989Sarcosaurus woodi Rowe p. 125
1990Sarcosaurus woodi Rowe and Gauthier p. 152
1997Sarcosaurus woodi Rowe et al. p. 108
1998Sarcosaurus woodi Holtz, Jr. p. 39
2004Sarcosaurus woodi Carrano and Sampson p. 541
2004Sarcosaurus woodi Tykoski and Rowe p. 50
2014Sarcosaurus andrewsi Delsate and Ezcurra p. 175
2016Sarcosaurus andrewsi Martill et al. p. 2
2016Sarcosaurus woodi Martill et al. p. 2
2017Sarcosaurus andrewsi Ezcurra p. 516

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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
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
superfamilyCoelophysoidea
genusSarcosaurus
specieswoodi

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.

†Sarcosaurus woodi Andrews 1921
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Invalid names: Sarcosaurus andrewsi Huene 1932 [synonym]
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: solitaryo
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: carnivoreo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2005-08-24 13:05:08
Modified: 2005-08-24 15:05:08
Source: g = genus, o = order
References: Peczkis 1995, Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Hettangian to the top of the Sinemurian or 201.40000 to 192.90000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Hettangian201.4 - 199.5United Kingdom (England) Megalosauridae indet. (37812)
Early/Lower Sinemurian199.5 - 192.9United Kingdom (England) Sarcosaurus woodi (71400 type locality: 71401)
Sinemurian199.5 - 192.9United Kingdom (Scotland) Ceratosauria indet. (32316)