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Carusioidea
Taxonomy
Carusioidea was named by Gao and Norell (1998). Its type is Carusia.
It was assigned to Anguimorpha by Gao and Norell (1998), Gao and Norell (2000), Evans and Wang (2005).
It was assigned to Anguimorpha by Gao and Norell (1998), Gao and Norell (2000), Evans and Wang (2005).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1998 | Carusioidea Gao and Norell p. 3 |
2000 | Carusioidea Gao and Norell p. 90 |
2005 | Carusioidea Evans and Wang p. 725 |
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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.
Superfm. †Carusioidea Gao and Norell 1998
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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K. -Q. Gao and M. A. Norell 1998 | The new taxon Carusioidea can be diagnosed by the following derived characters: frontals fused; lateral border of frontals constricted between orbits; presence of jugal-squamosal contact below supratemporal arch; presence of cranial osteoderms with vermiculate rugosities; postorbital branch of jugal sculptured; anterior tapering of surangular strongly reduced; and surangular extends anteriorly slightly beyond coronoid eminence. |
Measurements
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Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988 |
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Barremian to the top of the Early/Lower Aptian or 125.77000 to 119.57000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Late/Upper Barremian - Early/Lower Aptian | China (Liaoning) | Dalinghosaurus longidigitus (13937 52888 53493 117415) |