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Ornithostoma sedgwicki

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Ornithostoma sedgwicki was named by Seeley (1871). Its type specimen is CAMSM B.54485, a maxilla (Rostrum fragment (fused premaxillae and maxillae)), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cambridge Greensand [non-specific locality data], which is in an Albian open shallow subtidal marl in the West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1871Ornithostoma sedgwicki Seeley
1904Ornithostoma seeleyi Lydekker p. 59
2003Ornithostoma sedgwicki Unwin p. 145
2012Ornithostoma sedgwicki Averianov

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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
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—PterosauromorphaPadian 1997
—Pterosauria(Kaup 1834)
suborderPterodactyloideaPlieninger 1901
—Azhdarchoidea(Unwin 1992)
genusOrnithostoma
speciessedgwicki

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.

†Ornithostoma sedgwicki Seeley 1871
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Invalid names: Ornithostoma seeleyi Lydekker 1904 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available