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Dicraeosaurus hansemanni

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Taxonomy
Dicraeosaurus hansemanni was named by Janensch (1914). Its type specimen is HMN, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Tendaguru quarry m, Kindope, which is in a Kimmeridgian estuary/bay marl in the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1914Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Hennig p. 418
1914Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Janensch pp. 83, 98-99 figs. 7-10
1915Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Lull p. 329
1927Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Janensch p. 35
1931Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Janensch p. 85
1932Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Stromer p. 17
1937Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Janensch p. 551
1964Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Tatarinov p. 545
1967Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Charig p. 713
1970Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Fischer p. 202
1970Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Steel p. 81
1970Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Swinton p. 179
1978Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Ingavat and Taquet pp. SP1-2
1979Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Friese p. 24
1979Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Jain et al. p. 206
1990Dicraeosaurus hansemanni McIntosh p. 67
1991Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Salgado and Bonaparte p. 342
1992Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Salgado and Calvo p. 337
1999Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Salgado p. 209
2004Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Upchurch et al. p. 264
2005Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Gallina and Apesteguía p. 158
2005Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Salgado and Coria p. 435
2005Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Taylor and Naish p. 3
2006Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Harris p. 1104
2006Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Mateus p. 231
2007Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Apesteguía p. 539
2007Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Mezga et al. p. 197
2011Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Rauhut p. 197
2011Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Whitlock p. 333
2012Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Coria et al. p. R44
2012Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Ibiricu et al. p. 227
2012Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Knoll et al. p. 2
2012Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Le Loeuff et al. p. 487–488
2013Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Tschopp and Mateus p. 861
2014Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Schwarz-Wings and Böhm p. 97
2015Dicraeosaurus hansemani Cerda et al. p. 12
2021Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Bindellini and Dal Sasso p. 153
2021Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Paulina-Carabajal and Calvo p. 5
2021Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Windholz et al.

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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()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Sauropoda()
—Gravisauria
—Eusauropoda
—Neosauropoda
—Diplodocoidea()
—Diplodocimorpha
—Flagellicaudata
—Dicraeosauridae()
genusDicraeosaurus
specieshansemanni

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.

†Dicraeosaurus hansemanni Janensch 1914
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteinfrao
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult width: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult height: 10 to < 100infrao
Thickness: thickinfrao
Architecture: compact or denseinfrao
Form: sphericalinfrao
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partsinfrao
Grouping: gregariousinfrao
Environment: terrestrialinfrao
Locomotion: actively mobileinfrao
Life habit: ground dwellinginfrao
Diet: herbivoreinfrao
Reproduction: oviparousinfrao
Dispersal: direct/internalinfrao
Dispersal 2: mobileinfrao
Created: 2005-08-24 13:41:38
Modified: 2005-08-24 15:41:38
Source: g = genus, infrao = infraorder
References: Peczkis 1995, Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Oxfordian to the top of the Late/Upper Kimmeridgian or 163.50000 to 150.80000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Oxfordian163.5 - 157.3Tanzania (Lindi) Dicraeosaurus hansemanni (48387)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Tanzania (Lindi) Dicraeosaurus hansemanni (type locality: 47149 47151 47153)
Tithonian152.1 - 145.0Tanzania (Lindi) Dicraeosaurus hansemanni (48385)