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Protohadros byrdi

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Protohadros byrdi was named by Head (1998). Its type specimen is SMU 74582, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Flower Mound (SMU Loc. 303), which is in a Cenomanian deltaic mudstone/sandstone in the Lewisville Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Protohadros.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Protohadros byrdi Head
1999Protohadros byrdi Casanovas et al. p. 352
2004Protohadros byrdi Norman p. 417
2006Protohadros byrdi Lund and Gates p. 274
2006Protohadros byrdi Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 936
2007Protohadros byrdi Gilpin et al. p. 80
2010Protohadros byrdi Carpenter and Ishida p. 154
2010Protohadros byrdi McDonald et al. p. 33 fig. 39
2010Protohadros byrdi McDonald et al. p. 808 fig. 10
2010Protohadros byrdi Prieto-Marquez and Salinas p. 816
2010Protohadros byrdi Prieto-Márquez p. 1
2010Protohadros byrdi Prieto-Márquez and Norell p. 8
2010Protohadros byrdi Prieto-Márquez and Wagner p. 1243 fig. 3
2010Protohadros byrdi Saegusa et al. p. 56
2010Protohadros byrdi Weishampel et al. p. 429
2011Protohadros byrdi Prieto-Márquez p. 774
2011Protohadros byrdi Wang et al. p. 138
2012Protohadros byrdi Prieto-Márquez p. 529
2012Protohadros byrdi Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 380
2013Protohadros byrdi Gasca et al. p. 72
2013Protohadros byrdi Zheng et al.
2014Protohadros byrdi Tsogtbaatar et al. p. 115
2015Protohadros byrdi Noto p. 40
2015Protohadros byrdi Ohashi et al. p. 3
2015Protohadros byrdi Verdú et al. p. 254
2016Protohadros byrdi Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 34
2017Protohadros byrdi Cruzado-Caballero and Powell p. 11
2021Protohadros byrdi Kobayashi et al. p. 10

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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()
—Genasauria
—Cerapoda
—Ornithopoda()
—Clypeodonta
—Iguanodontia()
—Dryomorpha
—Styracosterna
—Hadrosauriformes
—Hadrosauroidea()
genusProtohadros
speciesbyrdi

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.

†Protohadros byrdi Head 1998
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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: herbivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:40:05
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:40:05
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004, Marsh 1875

Age range: Middle Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9USA (Texas) Hadrosauridae indet. (type locality: 24888) Hadrosauroidea indet. (172152)