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Gyposaurus
Taxonomy
Gyposaurus was named by Broom (1911). Its type is Gyposaurus capensis.
It was synonymized subjectively with Anchisaurus by Galton and Cluver (1976) and Dong (1997); it was synonymized subjectively with Massospondylus by Cooper (1981); it was synonymized subjectively with Lufengosaurus by Evans and Milner (1989); it was considered a nomen dubium by Galton and Upchurch (2004).
It was assigned to Theropoda by Broom (1913); to Saurischia by Huene (1940); to Prosauropoda by Young (1941); to Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1939), Huene (1958) and Simmons (1965); to Thecodontosauridae by Huene (1914), Haughton (1924), Nopcsa (1928), Haughton and Brink (1954), Romer (1956), Huene (1959), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966) and Charig (1967); and to Anchisauridae by Van Hoepen (1920), Steel (1970), Galton (1973), Upchurch et al. (2007) and Martínez (2009).
It was synonymized subjectively with Anchisaurus by Galton and Cluver (1976) and Dong (1997); it was synonymized subjectively with Massospondylus by Cooper (1981); it was synonymized subjectively with Lufengosaurus by Evans and Milner (1989); it was considered a nomen dubium by Galton and Upchurch (2004).
It was assigned to Theropoda by Broom (1913); to Saurischia by Huene (1940); to Prosauropoda by Young (1941); to Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1939), Huene (1958) and Simmons (1965); to Thecodontosauridae by Huene (1914), Haughton (1924), Nopcsa (1928), Haughton and Brink (1954), Romer (1956), Huene (1959), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966) and Charig (1967); and to Anchisauridae by Van Hoepen (1920), Steel (1970), Galton (1973), Upchurch et al. (2007) and Martínez (2009).
Species
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1911 | Gyposaurus Broom pp. 293-294 |
1913 | Gyposaurus Broom p. 364 |
1914 | Gyposaurus Huene p. 13 |
1920 | Gyposaurus Van Hoepen p. 91 |
1924 | Gyposaurus Haughton |
1928 | Gyposaurus Nopcsa p. 182 |
1939 | Gyposaurus Kuhn p. 63 |
1940 | Gryposaurus Huene p. 263 |
1941 | Gyposaurus Young p. 205 |
1954 | Gyposaurus Haughton and Brink p. 4 |
1956 | Gyposaurus Romer p. 617 |
1958 | Gyposaurus Huene p. 205 |
1959 | Gyposaurus Huene p. 120 |
1964 | Gyposaurus Tatarinov p. 541 |
1965 | Gyposaurus Simmons p. 60 |
1966 | Gryposaurus Romer p. 370 |
1967 | Gyposaurus Charig p. 712 |
1970 | Gyposaurus Steel p. 48 |
1973 | Gyposaurus Galton p. 248 |
2007 | Gyposaurus Upchurch et al. p. 62 fig. 3 |
2009 | Gyposaurus Martínez p. 162 fig. 22 |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available