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Euposaurus thiollierei

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Euposaurus thiollierei was named by Lortet (1892). Its type specimen is MHNL 15683, a skeleton (complete specimen), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cerin, Jura, which is in a Kimmeridgian terrestrial horizon in France.

It was corrected as Euposaurus thiolleri by Lortet (1982); it was considered a nomen dubium by Evans (1994); it was misspelled as Euposaurus thiolleri by Evans and Wang (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1892Euposaurus thiollierei Lortet p. 73 figs. Pl. VI:7–10
1963Euposaurus thiollierei Cocude-Michel
1982Euposaurus thiolleri Lortet
1983Euposaurus thiollierei Estes pp. 49-50 fig. 9b
2007Euposaurus thiolleri Evans and Wang

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
RankNameAuthor
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Eosuchia()
Neodiapsida
SauriaGauthier 1984
Lepidosauromorpha(Benton 1983)
superorderLepidosauria()
genusEuposaurusJourdan 1862
speciesthiollierei

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.

Euposaurus thiollierei Lortet 1892
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Diagnosis
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