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Platyoposaurus rickardi
Taxonomy
Platyops rickardi was named by Tvelvetrees (1880). Its type specimen is a specimen of Rickard's collection (current whereabouts unknown), a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kargalinski Mines, PIN 1954, PIN 48, locality 12 of Tverdokhlebov et al. (2005), which is in an Urzhumian deltaic sandstone/conglomerate in the Amanakskaya Formation of the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Platyoposaurus.
It was recombined as Platyoposaurus rickardi by Schoch and Milner (2000) and Shishkin et al. (2000).
It was recombined as Platyoposaurus rickardi by Schoch and Milner (2000) and Shishkin et al. (2000).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1880 | Platyops rickardi Tvelvetrees p. 313 |
| 1947 | Platyops rickardi Romer p. 153 |
| 2000 | Platyoposaurus rickardi Schoch and Milner |
| 2000 | Platyoposaurus rickardi Shishkin et al. p. 42 |
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†Platyoposaurus rickardi Tvelvetrees 1880
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available