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Aigialosaurus bucchichi

Reptilia - Aigialosauridae

Taxonomy
Opetiosaurus bucchichi was named by Kornhuber (1901). Its type specimen is Vienna museum specimen, a skeleton (Skeleton lacking part of tail), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lesina (Universitat Wien NHMW collection), which is in a Cenomanian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Starigrad Limestone Formation of Croatia.

It was synonymized subjectively with Aigialosaurus dalmaticus by Carroll and DeBraga (1992); it was misspelled as Opetiosaurus buccichi by Bell (1997) and Bell and Polcyn (2005); it was recombined as Aigialosaurus bucchichi by Dutchak and Caldwell (2009).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1901Opetiosaurus bucchichi Kornhuber
1997Opetiosaurus buccichi Bell
2005Opetiosaurus bucchichi Bell and Polcyn p. 189
2009Aigialosaurus bucchichi Dutchak and Caldwell

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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()
superfamilyMosasauroidea
familyAigialosauridaeKramberger 1892
genusAigialosaurusKramberger 1892
speciesbucchichi(Kornhuber 1901)

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.

†Aigialosaurus bucchichi Kornhuber 1901
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
A. R. Dutchak and M. W. Caldwell 2009Premaxillary rostrum absent; quadrate tympanic ala with uniform curvature; dentary teeth with conical, recurved tips rapidly expanding to broad cylindrical bases; splenial contacts coronoid at intermandibular hinge; final three or four caudal vertebrae show sharp downward curvature.