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Phosphorosaurus

Reptilia - Mosasauridae

Taxonomy
Phosphorosaurus was named by Dollo (1889).

It was synonymized subjectively with Plioplatecarpus by Russell (1967).

It was assigned to Halisaurinae by Mateus et al. (2012), Konishi et al. (2016) and Driscoll et al. (2019); and to Halisaurini by Longrich et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1889Phosphorosaurus Dollo p. 68
2012Phosphorosaurus Mateus et al.
2016Phosphorosaurus Konishi et al.
2019Phosphorosaurus Driscoll et al.
2021Phosphorosaurus Longrich et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
Squamata()
familyMosasauridae
Halisaurinae
Halisaurini
genusPhosphorosaurusDollo 1889

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.

G. †Phosphorosaurus Dollo 1889
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Phosphorosaurus ponpetelegans Konishi et al. 2016
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available