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Asilisaurus kongwe
Taxonomy
Asilisaurus kongwe was named by Nesbitt et al. (2010). Its type specimen is NMT RB9, a mandible (anterior portion of a left dentary with associated tooth), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Litumba Ndyosi (NMT Z34), which is in an Anisian channel mudstone in the Manda Beds Formation of Tanzania.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2010 | Asilisaurus kongwe Nesbitt et al. p. 95 figs. 1-2 |
| 2011 | Asilisaurus kongwe Nesbitt p. 47 |
| 2012 | Asilisaurus kongwe Kammerer et al. p. 277 |
| 2015 | Asilisaurus kongwe Nesbitt and Ezcurra p. 519 |
| 2016 | Asilisaurus kongwe Griffin and Nesbitt p. 2 |
| 2016 | Asilisaurus kongwe Martínez et al. p. 2 |
| 2019 | Asilisaurus kongwe Martz and Small p. 16 |
| 2019 | Asilisaurus kongue Veiga et al. p. 3 |
| 2020 | Asilisaurus kongwe Desojo et al. p. 27 |
| 2020 | Asilisaurus kongwe Moro et al. |
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†Asilisaurus kongwe Nesbitt et al. 2010
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| S. J. Nesbitt et al. 2010 | Asilisaurus differs from all other archosaurs in possessing the following unique combination of character states: anterior portion of the dentary tapers to a sharp point; teeth absent from the anterior portion of the dentary; teeth ankylosed into the alveoli; distinctly convex dorsal margin of the dentary; Meckelian groove positioned at the dorsoventral midpoint of the medial surface of the dentary; peg-like teeth with extremely small, poorly developed serrations (see Supplementary Information for differential diagnosis using additional characters preserved on the paratypes). |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||