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Lemurosaurus pricei
Taxonomy
Lemurosaurus pricei was named by Broom (1949). Its type specimen is BP/1/816, a skull (Small skull with lower jaws), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Dorsfontein, Graaff-Reinet, which is in a Wuchiapingian terrestrial horizon in South Africa. It is the type species of Lemurosaurus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1949 | Lemurosaurus pricei Broom |
| 1989 | Lemurosaurus pricei Sigogneau-Russell |
| 2006 | Lemurosaurus pricei Sidor and Rubidge |
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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.
†Lemurosaurus pricei Broom 1949
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Wuchiapingian or 259.90000 to 254.17000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Permian | South Africa | Lemurosaurus pricei (190136) | |
| Wuchiapingian | South Africa (Eastern Cape) | Lemurosaurus pricei (176310 type locality: 176311) |