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Cymatosaurus fridericianus
Taxonomy
Cymatosaurus fridericianus was named by Frtisch (1894). Its type specimen is Ha, uncatalogued, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Portland-Cement-Fabrik, Halle-Nietleben, which is in a Bithynian terrestrial carbonate in the Röt Formation of Germany.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1894 | Cymatosaurus fridericianus Frtisch |
| 1971 | Cymatosaurus fridericianus Kuhn p. 19 |
| 1997 | Cymatosaurus fridericianus Rieppel p. 4 figs. 1-2 |
| 2001 | Cymatosaurus fridericianus O'Keefe p. 9 |
| 2014 | Cymatosaurus fridericianus Sander et al. |
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†Cymatosaurus fridericianus Frtisch 1894
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| O. Rieppel 1997 | A species of Cymatosaurus of large size (tip of snout to back end of parietal skull table up to 200 mm); three maxillary teeth preceding paired maxillary fangs; nasals reduced, excluded from external naris; prefrontal and postfrontal in contact at dorsal margin of orbit; frontal enters anterior margin of upper temporal fossa |