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Lamprosauroides goepperti

Reptilia - Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae

Taxonomy
Lamprosaurus goepperti was named by Meyer (1860). Its type specimen is Institute of Geological Sciences of the Unviersity of Wroclaw, MGU Wr. 3871s, a maxilla (right maxilla), and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Lamprosauroides goepperti by Schmidt (1927) and Kuhn (1971).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1860Lamprosaurus goepperti Meyer
1884Lamprosaurus goepperti Gürich p. 132
1927Lamprosauroides goepperti Schmidt
1971Lamprosauroides goepperti Kuhn p. 18

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
suborderSauropterygia
orderEosauropterygia
familyNothosauridaeBaur 1889
genusLamprosauroidesSchmidt 1927
speciesgoepperti(Meyer 1860)

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.

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Diagnosis
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