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Palaeoscincosaurus middletoni
Taxonomy
Palaeoscincosaurus middletoni was named by Sullivan and Lucas (1996). Its type specimen is UCM 34621, a mandible (medial part of left mandible with teeth), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Alexander, which is in a Puercan terrestrial shale/sandstone in the Denver Formation of Colorado. It is the type species of Palaeoscincosaurus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1996 | Palaeoscincosaurus middletoni Sullivan and Lucas |
| 2009 | Palaeoscincosaurus middletoni Nydam and Fitzpatrick pp. 683-684 |
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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.
†Palaeoscincosaurus middletoni Sullivan and Lucas 1996
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. L. Nydam and B. M. Fitzpatrick 2009 | Differs from Palaeoscincosaurus pharkidodon sp. nov. in the following combination of features: shelf-like lateral expansion along posterior portion of dentary less fully developed; dentary and maxillary teeth with lateral apical striae on crowns less well-developed, ridges along anterior and posterior margins of crowns more pronounced, and shafts below crowns not expanded medially. |
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||