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Mymoorapelta maysi

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Mymoorapelta maysi was named by Kirkland and Carpenter (1994). Its type specimen is MWC 1815. Its type locality is Mygatt-Moore Quarry, lower mudstone, which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian pond mudstone/conglomerate in the Morrison Formation of Colorado. It was considered monophyletic by Vickaryous et al. (2004).

Entered
by M. Carrano on 2004-05-28; modified by M. Carrano on 2013-10-27

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Mymoorapelta maysi Kirkland and Carpenter pp. 27-41 figs. 3-12
1998Mymoorapelta maysi Kirkland et al. pp. 146-147
2000Mymoorapelta maysi Ford p. 174
2001Mymoorapelta maysi Blows p. 376
2001Mymoorapelta maysi Carpenter p. 457
2001Mymoorapelta maysi Clark p. 22
2001Mymoorapelta maysi Pereda Suberbiola and Galton p. 201
2003Mymoorapelta maysi Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola p. 160
2004Mymoorapelta maysi Vickaryous et al. p. 366
2005Mymoorapelta maysi Kilbourne and Carpenter p. 112
2006Mymoorapelta maysi Chure et al. p. 237
2006Mymoorapelta maysi Mateus p. 231
2007Mymoorapelta maysi Galton p. 24
2013Mymoorapelta maysi Kirkland et al. p. 5
2014Mymoorapelta maysi Han et al. p. 14 fig. 11
2016Mymoorapelta maysi Foster et al. p. 59
2016Mymoorapelta maysi Kineer et al. p. 42
2019Mymoorapelta maysi Galton p. 211 fig. 4
2024Mymoorapelta maysi Fonseca et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—ParapredentataNorman 2022
—SaphornithischiaMadzia et al. 2001
—PrionodontiaOwen 1874
—Genasauria
—Thyreophora()
superfamilyThyreophoroidea()
—Eurypoda
—Ankylosauria()
genusMymoorapelta
speciesmaysi

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.

†Mymoorapelta maysi Kirkland and Carpenter 1994
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
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
References: Marsh 1875, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Tithonian or 149.20000 to 143.10000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian154.8 - 143.1USA (Colorado) Nodosauridae indet. (type locality: 11611)
Tithonian149.2 - 143.1USA (Colorado) Mymoorapelta sp. (48124)