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Seitaad ruessi

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Seitaad ruessi was named by Sertich and Loewen (2010). Its type specimen is UMNH VP 18040, a partial skeleton (articulated partial postcranial skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Eagle's Nest, UMNH VP Loc. 191, which is in a Pliensbachian/Toarcian eolian sandstone in the Navajo Sandstone Formation of Utah. It is the type species of Seitaad.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2010Seitaad ruessi Sertich and Loewen
2011Seitaad ruessi Apaldetti et al. p. 4

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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()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Eusaurischia
—Sauropodomorpha(Huene 1932)
—Massopoda
—Sauropodiformes
genusSeitaad
speciesruessi

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.

†Seitaad ruessi Sertich and Loewen 2010
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Pliensbachian to the top of the Toarcian or 190.80000 to 174.10000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Pliensbachian - Toarcian190.8 - 174.1USA (Utah) Seitaad ruessi (type locality: 94804)