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Provaranosaurus acutus

Osteichthyes - Necrosauridae

Taxonomy
Provaranosaurus acutus was named by Gilmore (1942). Its type specimen is Princeton Mus. no. 14243, a maxilla (left maxillary bearing 11 teeth), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Princeton Quarry, which is in a Tiffanian terrestrial horizon in the Fort Union Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Provaranosaurus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1942Provaranosaurus acutus Gilmore p. 160

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Squamata()
—Anguimorpha(Fürbringer 1900)
familyNecrosauridaeHoffstetter 1943
genusProvaranosaurus
speciesacutus

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.

†Provaranosaurus acutus Gilmore 1942
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrials
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivores
Created: 2005-09-19 08:26:39
Modified: 2005-09-19 10:26:39
Source: s = species, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Head 2005

Age range: Tiffanian or 60.90000 to 57.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tiffanian60.9 - 57.5USA (Wyoming) Provaranosaurus acutus (type locality: 15049)