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Myosaurus gracilis
Taxonomy
Myosaurus gracilis was named by Hammer and Cosgriff (1981). Its type specimen is SAM 3526 and 3526a, a skull (Two skulls in nodule), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Harrismith Commonage, which is in an Induan/Olenekian terrestrial horizon in the Normandien Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Myosaurus.
Entered
by R. Butler on 2011-02-22
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1981 | Myosaurus gracilis Hammer and Cosgriff |
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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.
†Myosaurus gracilis Hammer and Cosgriff 1981
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004, Bambach et al. 2007, Benton 1983, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Triassic | Antarctica | Myosaurus gracilis (105602) | |
| Induan - Olenekian | South Africa (Free State) | Myosaurus gracilis (type locality: 88282) |