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Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Anthropornis nordenskjoldii was named by Wiman (1905). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Snow Hill, next to, which is in a Bartonian coastal sandstone in the La Meseta Formation of Antarctica.

It was corrected as Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi by Brodkorb (1963), Jenkins (1985), Fordyce (1991), Myrcha et al. (2002), Tambussi et al. (2006), Jadwiszczak and Mörs (2011) and Jadwiszczak (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1905Anthropornis nordenskjoldii Ameghino p. 149
1905Anthropornis nordenskjoldii Wiman p. 249 figs. Plate XII, Fig. 6
1933Anthropornis nordenskjoldii Lambrecht p. 234
1939Anthropornis nordenskjoldii Lowe p. 283
1946Anthropornis nordenskjoldii Simpson p. 38
1953Anthropornis nordenskjoldii Marples p. 6
1963Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi Brodkorb p. 234
1971Anthropornis nordenskjoldii Simpson p. 366
1985Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi Jenkins p. 183
1991Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi Fordyce p. 1176
2002Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi Myrcha et al. p. 17
2006Anthropornis nordenskjoldii Jadwiszczak p. 13
2006Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi Tambussi et al. p. 151
2007Anthropornis nordenskjoldii Chavez p. 554
2011Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi Jadwiszczak and Mörs p. 272
2012Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi Jadwiszczak p. 263

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Theropoda()
Tetanurae
Coelurosauria()
Maniraptora
Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
Aequornithes
Feraequornithes
superorderProcellariimorphae
Sphenisciformes(Sharpe 1891)
genusAnthropornis
speciesnordenskjoeldi()

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.

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Diagnosis
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