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Staurikosaurus pricei

Reptilia - Herrerasauridae

Taxonomy
Staurikosaurus pricei was named by Colbert (1970). Its type specimen is MCZ 1669, a partial skeleton (both mandibular rami with fragments of teeth in situ; six cervical, 15 dorsal, three sacral, and 34 caudal vertebrae; rib fragments; distal left scapula; ilia, ), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Alemõa, Sanga Baixo (MCZ), which is in a Carnian terrestrial sandstone/siltstone in the Santa Maria Formation of Brazil.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1970Staurikosaurus pricei Colbert p. 5
1973Staurikosaurus pricei Benedetto
1973Staurikosaurus pricei Bonaparte p. 110
1973Staurikosaurus pricei Galton pp. 248-249
1978Staurikosaurus pricei Bonaparte p. 324
1979Staurikosaurus pricei Bonaparte p. 221
1987Staurikosaurus pricei Brinkman and Sues p. 500
1988Staurikosaurus pricei Paul p. 245
1990Staurikosaurus pricei Sues p. 147
1991Staurikosaurus pricei Olshevsky p. 104
1996Staurikosaurus pricei Kellner p. 610
1997Staurikosaurus pricei Novas p. 303
1999Teyuwasu barberenai Kischlat
2000Staurikosaurus pricei Gand et al. p. 617
2003Staurikosaurus pricei Rauhut p. 18
2003Staurikosaurus pricei Yates p. 323
2004Staurikosaurus pricei Bittencourt and Kellner p. 39A
2004Staurikosaurus pricei Langer p. 27
2005Staurikosaurus pricei Bittencourt and Kellner pp. 51-52
2006Staurikosaurus pricei Langer and Benton p. 311
2008Staurikosaurus pricei Machado et al. p. 309
2009Staurikosaurus pricei Bittencourt and Kellner p. 3
2009Staurikosaurus pricei Martínez and Alcober p. 1
2010Staurikosaurus pricei Alcober and Martínez p. 60
2010Staurikosaurus pricei Langer et al. p. 62
2010Teyuwasu barberenai Langer et al. p. 75
2010Staurikosaurus pricei Yates p. 743
2011Teyuwasu barberenai Bittencourt and Langer p. 35
2013Staurikosaurus pricei Da-Rosa p. R14
2013Staurikosaurus pricei Fernandes de Azevedo et al. p. 136
2013Staurikosaurus pricei Sereno et al. p. 83
2014Staurikosaurus pricei Marzola and Dalla Vecchia p. 13
2017Staurikosaurus pricei Ezcurra p. 515
2021Staurikosaurus pricei Müller and Garcia p. 12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Theropoda()
familyHerrerasauridae
genusStaurikosaurus
speciespricei

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.

Staurikosaurus pricei Colbert 1970
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Invalid names: Teyuwasu barberenai Kischlat 1999 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. d. S. Bittencourt and A. W. A. Kellner 2009Saurischian dinosaur distinguished by the following autapomorphies: 1) craniomedial region of the distal pubis is distinctly beveled (Novas 1993; Figs 22–23); 2) femoral cranial trochanter reduced in size (Fig. 27); 3) distal end of tibia is subcircular in distal view (modified from Rauhut 2003; Fig. 28g); 4) dorsoventrally oriented sulcus present on the medial surface of the proximal third of fibula (Fig. 30c–d).