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Mycterosaurus longiceps

Varanopidae

Taxonomy
Mycterosaurus longiceps was named by Williston (1915). Its type specimen is FMNH UC 692, a partial skeleton (skull and few postcrania), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mitchell Creek, 29 (Waggoner Ranch Formation), which is in an Artinskian/Kungurian terrestrial limestone/shale in the Waggoner Ranch Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Mycterosaurus.

Synonyms
  • Basicranodon fortsillensis was named by Vaughn (1958). Its type specimen is USNM 21859, a partial skull (most of the parasphenoid-basisphenoid complex), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Richards Spur, which is in an Artinskian fissure fill claystone/conglomerate in Oklahoma.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Mycterosaurus longiceps by Reisz et al. (1997).
  • Eumatthevia bolli was named by Broom (1930). Its type specimen is AMNH Cope Coll. 7002, a partial skeleton (partial skull, the greater part of both scapule, partial anterior limbs, a small part of the pelvis, much of one hind-limb, probably most of the vertebra), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is "Copper Shept", which is in an Artinskian/Kungurian terrestrial horizon in Texas. It is the type species of Eumatthevia.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Mycterosaurus longiceps by Romer and Price (1940), Reisz (1986).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1915Mycterosaurus longiceps Williston p. 554 figs. 1, 2
1930Eumatthevia bolli Broom p. 1 figs. 1-4
1930Mycterosaurus longiceps Hay p. 47
1940Mycterosaurus longiceps Romer and Price p. 408 figs. 7, 24, 28, 37, 71; pl. 21
1958Basicranodon fortsillensis Vaughn
1986Basicranodon fortsillensis Reisz
1986Mycterosaurus longiceps Reisz p. 65

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
suborderEupelycosauria
familyVaranopidae()
—Neovaranopsia
subfamilyVaranodontinae
genusMycterosaurus
specieslongiceps

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.

†Mycterosaurus longiceps Williston 1915
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Invalid names: Basicranodon fortsillensis Vaughn 1958 [synonym], Eumatthevia bolli Broom 1930 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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