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Cymatosaurus minor

Reptilia - Eosauropterygia

Taxonomy
Cymatosaurus minor was named by Rieppel and Wernburg (1998). Its type specimen is NHMS-GT 21, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ilm Valley, near Hetschburg, which is in an Anisian marine horizon in the Jena Formation of Germany.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Cymatosaurus minor Rieppel and Wernburg pp. 578-583 figs. 1-3
2014Cymatosaurus minor Sander 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
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
suborderSauropterygia
orderEosauropterygia
suborderPistosauroideaBaur 1887
genusCymatosaurusFritsch 1894
speciesminor

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.

Cymatosaurus minor Rieppel and Wernburg 1998
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
O. Rieppel and R. Wernburg 1998"A relatively small species of Cymatosaurus distinguished from all other species by a comparatively long and/or a relatively narrow upper temporal fossa, by the presence of a parietal sagittal crest, by the anterior extent of the parietals, which reach to a level well in front of the posterior margins of the orbits, and by the fused vomers."