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Animantarx ramaljonesi

Reptilia - Nodosauridae

Taxonomy
Animantarx ramaljonesi was named by Carpenter et al. (1999). Its type specimen is CEUM 6228R, a partial skeleton (partial skull, right mandible, cervical and dorsal vertebrae, ribs, scapula-coracoids, fragment of sternal plate, right humerus, left ilium with ischium, and le), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Carol Jones Quarry (CEU), which is in an Aptian/Albian terrestrial mudstone/sandstone in the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah. It was considered monophyletic by Vickaryous et al. (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1999Animantarx ramaljonesi Carpenter et al. pp. 244-247 figs. 2-7
1999Animantarx ramaljonesi Kirkland et al. p. 213
2000Animantarx ramaljonesi Ford p. 175
2001Animantarx ramaljonesi Carpenter p. 170
2001Animantarx ramaljonesi Carpenter et al. p. 213
2001Animantarx ramaljonesi Ford and Kirkland p. 255
2001Animantarx ramaljonesi Vickaryous et al. p. 1773
2004Animantarx ramaljonesi Vickaryous et al. p. 366
2007Animantarx ramaljonesi Garrison, Jr. et al. p. 464
2011Animantarx ramaljonesi Kirkland and Loewen p. 5
2011Animantarx ramaljonesi Stanford et al. p. 917
2013Animantarx ramaljonesi Kirkland et al. p. 7
2014Animantarx ramaljonesi Han et al. p. 12 fig. 10
2016Animantarx ramaljonesi Kineer et al. p. 76
2016Animantarx ramaljonesi Kirkland et al. p. 52

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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()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Thyreophora()
—Ankylosauria()
familyNodosauridae
genusAnimantarx
speciesramaljonesi

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.

†Animantarx ramaljonesi Carpenter et al. 1999
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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
Reference: Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Aptian to the top of the Albian or 125.00000 to 100.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian - Albian125.0 - 100.5USA (Utah) Nodosauridae indet. (type locality: 27067)