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Protorosaurus speneri

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Protorosaurus speneri was named by Meyer (1832). Its type specimen is NHMW 1943I4, a skeleton (Almost complete skeleton with the skull missing), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Glücksbrunn/Heidelberg near Schweina, which is in a Wuchiapingian offshore shale in the Werra Formation of Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1832Protorosaurus speneri Meyer pp. 109, 208
1848Proterosaurus speneri Geinitz p. 3 figs. Pl 1, fig 1
1856Protorosaurus speneri Meyer pp. 5, 6 figs. Pls. I-IX
1856Proterosaurus speneri Roemer p. 787
1859Protorosaurus speneri Owen p. 140
1860Protorosaurus speneri Owen p. 253
1861Protorosaurus speneri Owen p. 280
1867Proterosaurus speneri Quenstedt p. 138
1980Protorosaurus speneri Chatterjee p. 197
1986Protorosaurus speneri Chatterjee p. 309
2009Protorosaurus speneri Gottman-Quesada and Sander p. 135
2016Protorosaurus speneri Ezcurra

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Eugnathostomata
—Teleostomi(Bonaparte 1836)
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
genusProtorosaurusMeyer 1830
speciesspeneri

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.

†Protorosaurus speneri Meyer 1832
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, subp = subphylum, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988

Age range: Wuchiapingian or 259.51000 to 254.14000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Wuchiapingian259.51 - 254.14Germany (Hesse) Protorosaurus speneri (81115 93036)
Wuchiapingian259.51 - 254.14Germany (Thuringia) Protorosaurus speneri (93033 type locality: 93034)
Wuchiapingian259.51 - 254.14United Kingdom (England) Protorosaurus speneri (87004)
Wuchiapingian259.51 - 254.14Germany (Saxony Anhalt) Protorosaurus speneri (85484 93035)