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Nanchangosaurus suni
Taxonomy
Nanchangosaurus suni was named by Wang (1959). Its type specimen is IVPP V646, a partial skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Xunjian, Nanzhang, which is in a Triassic marine horizon in China. It is the type species of Nanchangosaurus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1959 | Nanchangosaurus suni Wang |
| 1991 | Nanchangosaurus suni Carroll and Dong pp. 146-147 |
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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.
†Nanchangosaurus suni Wang 1959
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Spathian to the top of the Middle Triassic or 251.30000 to 237.00000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Spathian | China (Hubei) | Nanchangosaurus suni (173843) | |
| Middle Triassic | China (Hubei) | Nanchangosaurus suni (type locality: 114113) |