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Sauroplites scutiger
Taxonomy
Sauroplites scutiger was named by Bohlin (1953) [casts of some material as AMNH 2074; no catalogue number provided for holotype.]. Its type specimen is PIN uncat. (ribs, ?ischium, osteoderms) and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Tebch (SSE), which is in an Aptian terrestrial sandstone in China. It is the type species of Sauroplites.
It was considered a nomen dubium by Dong (1992); it was considered a nomen dubium by Vickaryous et al. (2004).
It was considered a nomen dubium by Dong (1992); it was considered a nomen dubium by Vickaryous et al. (2004).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1953 | Sauroplites scutiger Bohlin p. 19 figs. 9, Pl. 3-5 |
| 1964 | Sauroplites scutiger Kuhn p. 51 |
| 1977 | Sauroplites scutiger Maryanska p. 98 |
| 1994 | Sauroplites scutiger Eberth et al. p. 2103 |
| 1997 | Sauroplites scutiger Mateer p. 662 |
| 2000 | Sauroplites scutiger Ford p. 176 |
| 2016 | Sauroplites scutiger Arbour and Currie p. 394 |
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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.
†Sauroplites scutiger Bohlin 1953
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie 2016 | Uniquely amongst ankylosaurs, pelvic shield composed of co-ossified osteoderm rosettes, in which the large central osteoderms of each rosette are sep- arated by only a single ring of smaller osteoderms. |
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