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Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus

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Taxonomy
Limnosaurus transsylvanicus was named by Nopcsa (1900) [Specimen is the lectotype.]. Its type specimen is BMNH B.3386, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Szentpéterfalva, Hateg Basin, which is in a Maastrichtian fluvial sandstone in the Sânpetru Formation of Romania.

It was recombined as Hecatasaurus transsyvanicus by Brown (1910); it was recombined as Orthomerus transsylvanicus by Nopcsa (1915), Kadić (1917), Huene (1927), Nagao (1936), Riabinin (1946), Lapparent (1948), Kuhn (1964), Dinca et al. (1971), Jurcsák (1982) and Brinkmann (1984); it was recombined as Orthomerus transylvanicus by Nopcsa (1915), Nopcsa (1923), Lapparent (1947), Jeletzky (1960), Lapparent (1967), Grigorescu (1984), Casanovas et al. (1987), Buffetaut (1992) and Grigorescu (1992); it was recombined as Telmatosaurus transylvanicus by Vremir and Codrea (2002); it was misspelled as Limnosaurus transylvanicus by Gilmore (1933), Mamulea (1953), Casanovas-Cladellas et al. (1986), Le Loeuff (1997), Powell (2003), Chiappe et al. (2003), Canudo et al. (2005), Lund and Gates (2006) and Coria (2011); it was recombined as Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus by Nopcsa (1903), Versluys (1910), Charig (1967), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Brinkmann (1988), Weishampel and Horner (1990), Buffetaut et al. (1991), Weishampel et al. (1991), Weishampel et al. (1993), Wellnhofer (1994), Le Loeuff and Buffetaut (1995), Casanovas-Cladellas et al. (1998), Godefroit et al. (1998), Weishampel et al. (1999), Casanovas et al. (1999), Grigorescu and Csiki (2000), Jagt et al. (2003), Grigorescu (2003), Horner et al. (2004), Grigorescu (2004), Grigorescu (2005), Bojar et al. (2005), Grigorescu and Csiki (2006), Grigorescu (2006), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2006), Dalla Vecchia (2006), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (2007), Gates et al. (2007), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (2007), Evans and Reisz (2007), Dalla Vecchia (2009), Pereda-Suberbiola et al. (2009), Prieto-Márquez (2010), Weishampel et al. (2010), Vremir (2010), Codrea et al. (2010), Prieto-Márquez and Norell (2010), Grigorescu (2010), Cruzado-Caballero et al. (2010), Prieto-Márquez (2010), Grigorescu (2010), Juárez Valieri et al. (2010), McDonald et al. (2010), Godefroit and Motchurova-Dekova (2010), McDonald et al. (2010), Prieto-Marquez and Salinas (2010), Prieto-Márquez and Wagner (2010), Prieto-Márquez (2011), Prieto-Márquez (2011), Ramírez-Velasco et al. (2012), Prieto-Márquez (2012), Zheng et al. (2013), Fernández (2013), Sellés et al. (2014), Dalla Vecchia (2014), Tsogtbaatar et al. (2014), Company et al. (2015), Ulansky (2015), Blanco et al. (2015), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2016), Cruzado-Caballero and Powell (2017), Fondevilla et al. (2018), Dalla Vecchia (2020) and Kobayashi et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1900Limnosaurus transsylvanicus Nopcsa p. 559 figs. Pl. 1-6
1901Limnosaurus transsylvanicus Nopcsa p. 212
1903Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Nopcsa pp. 94-95
1910Hecatasaurus transsyvanicus Brown p. 273
1910Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Versluys p. 225
1915Orthomerus transsylvanicus Nopcsa p. 8
1915Orthomerus transylvanicus Nopcsa p. 386
1917Orthomerus transsylvanicus Kadić p. 618
1923Orthomerus transylvanicus Nopcsa p. 105
1927Orthomerus transsylvanicus Huene p. 267
1933Limnosaurus transylvanicus Gilmore p. 53
1936Orthomerus transsylvanicus Nagao p. 185
1946Orthomerus transsylvanicus Riabinin p. 66
1947Orthomerus transylvanicus Lapparent p. 32
1948Orthomerus transsylvanicus Lapparent p. 1186
1953Orthomerus transilvanicus Mamulea p. 248
1960Orthomerus transylvanicus Jeletzky p. 34
1964Orthomerus transsylvanicus Kuhn p. 24
1967Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Charig p. 716
1967Orthomerus transylvanicus Lapparent p. 11
1971Orthomerus transsylvanicus Dinca et al. p. 89
1982Orthomerus transsylvanicus Jurcsák p. 182
1983Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1984Orthomerus transsylvanicus Brinkmann p. 297
1984Orthomerus transylvanicus Grigorescu p. 111
1986Orthomerus transylvanicus Casanovas-Cladellas et al. p. 108
1987Orthomerus transylvanicus Casanovas et al. p. 102
1988Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Brinkmann p. 74
1990Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Weishampel and Horner p. 556
1991Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Buffetaut et al. p. 34
1991Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Weishampel et al. p. 203 figs. 8-9
1992Orthomerus transylvanicus Buffetaut p. 131
1992Orthomerus transylvanicus Grigorescu p. 156
1993Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Weishampel et al. p. 362 figs. 1-6
1994Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Wellnhofer p. 229
1995Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Le Loeuff and Buffetaut p. 183
1997Telmatosaurus transylvanicus Le Loeuff p. 454
1998Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Casanovas-Cladellas et al. p. 16
1998Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Godefroit et al. p. 50
1999Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Casanovas et al. p. 351
1999Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Weishampel et al. p. 358
2000Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Grigorescu and Csiki p. 33
2002Telmatosaurus transylvanicus Vremir and Codrea p. 97
2003Telmatosaurus transylvanicus Chiappe et al. p. 100
2003Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Grigorescu p. 100
2003Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Jagt et al. p. 73
2003Orthomerus transylvanicus Powell p. 75
2004Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Grigorescu p. 109
2004Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Horner et al. p. 439
2005Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Bojar et al. p. 208
2005Telmatosaurus transsilvanicus Canudo et al. p. 11
2005Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Grigorescu p. 197
2006Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Dalla Vecchia pp. 1-3
2006Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Grigorescu p. 18R
2006Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Grigorescu and Csiki p. 20
2006Telmatosaurus transylvanicus Lund and Gates p. 274
2006Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 936
2007Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Evans and Reisz p. 385
2007Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Gates et al. p. 925
2007Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Pereda Suberbiola and Galton p. 91
2009Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Dalla Vecchia pp. 3-4
2009Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Pereda-Suberbiola et al. p. 560
2010Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Codrea et al. p. 597
2010Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Cruzado-Caballero et al. p. 154
2010Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Godefroit and Motchurova-Dekova p. 165
2010Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Grigorescu p. 90
2010Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Juárez Valieri et al. p. 220
2010Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus McDonald et al. p. 33 fig. 39
2010Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus McDonald et al. p. 808 fig. 10
2010Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Prieto-Marquez and Salinas p. 835 fig. 20
2010Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Prieto-Márquez p. 5 fig. 2
2010Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Prieto-Márquez and Norell p. 6
2010Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Prieto-Márquez and Wagner p. 1241
2010Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Vremir p. 654
2010Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Weishampel et al. p. 429
2011Telmatosaurus transilvanicus Coria p. R9
2011Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Prieto-Márquez p. 63
2012Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Prieto-Márquez p. 529
2012Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 386
2013Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Fernández p. 92
2013Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Zheng et al.
2014Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Dalla Vecchia p. 270
2014Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Sellés et al. p. 725
2014Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Tsogtbaatar et al. p. 116
2015Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Blanco et al. p. 447
2015Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Company et al. p. 72
2015Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Ulansky p. 5
2016Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 20
2017Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Cruzado-Caballero and Powell p. 12 fig. 13
2018Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Fondevilla et al. p. 1
2020Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Dalla Vecchia p. 584
2021Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Kobayashi et al. p. 1

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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
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Cerapoda
—Ornithopoda()
—Clypeodonta
—Iguanodontia()
—Dryomorpha
—Styracosterna
—Hadrosauriformes
—Hadrosauroidea()
genusTelmatosaurus
speciestranssylvanicus()

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