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Peirosaurus torminni

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Peirosaurus torminni was named by Price (1955). Its type specimen is DGM-433-R, a partial skeleton (left premaxilla, isolated teeth, right anteriori supraorbital bone, radii, ulnae, left pubis and ischium fragments, vertebrae, ribs, haemal arches, and dermal p), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Price Quarry 3, Peirópolis, which is in a Maastrichtian crevasse splay sandstone in the Serra da Galga Formation of Brazil. It is the type species of Peirosaurus.

It was corrected as Peirosaurus tormini by Bronzati et al. (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1955Peirosaurus torminni Price pp. 488-489 figs. Pl. 1
1967Peirosaurus torminni Charig p. 712
1991Peirosaurus tormini Gasparini et al. p. 317
2006Peirosaurus tormini Nobre and Carvalho
2008Peirosaurus torminni Martinelli and Pais
2010Peirosaurus tormini Nascimento and Zaher
2010Peirosaurus torminni Turner and Sertich
2011Peirosaurus tormini Carvalho et al.
2011Peirosaurus tormini Montefeltro et al.
2012Peirosaurus tormini Bronzati 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()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—SuchiaKrebs 1974
—Paracrocodylomorpha
—Loricata(Merrem 1820)
—Crocodylomorpha()
—Solidocrania
suborderCrocodyliformes
—MesoeucrocodyliaWhetstone and Whybrow 1983
—PeirosauriaLeardi et al. 2024
—Peirosauridae(Gasparini 1982)
subfamilyPeirosaurinae
genusPeirosaurus
speciestorminni

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.

†Peirosaurus torminni Price 1955
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marineuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoresubo
Created: 2017-04-17 10:39:01
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:39:01
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Bush and Bambach 2015, Carroll 1988

Age range: Maastrichtian or 72.20000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Brazil (Minas Gerais) Peirosaurus torminni (type locality: 51629)