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Stegomus arcuatus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Stegomus arcuatus was named by Marsh (1896). Its type specimen is YPM 1647, a set of postcrania (natural cast of dorsal carapace), and it is a cast. Its type locality is Freeman Clark Quarry, Fair Haven, which is in an Alaunian terrestrial sandstone in the New Haven Formation of Connecticut. It is the type species of Stegomus.

It was recombined as Aetosaurus arcuatus by Lucas et al. (1998), Heckert and Lucas (1999) and Heckert and Lucas (2000).

Subspecies
S. jerseyensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1896Stegomus arcuatus Marsh
1902Stegomus arcuatus Hay p. 511
1915Stegomus arcuatus Lull p. 99
1917Stegomus arcuatus Lull p. 110
1922Stegomus arcuatus Huene p. 23
1930Stegomus arcuatus Hay p. 139
1967Stegomus arcuatus Charig p. 709
1998Aetosaurus arcuatus Lucas et al.
1999Aetosaurus arcuatus Heckert and Lucas
2000Aetosaurus arcuatus Heckert and Lucas
2013Stegomus arcuatus Desojo et al.

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—SuchiaKrebs 1974
—Aetosauria(Lydekker 1889)
—Stagonolepididae(Lydekker 1887)
genusStegomus
speciesarcuatus

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.

†Stegomus arcuatus Marsh 1896
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available