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Moabosaurus utahensis

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Moabosaurus utahensis was named by Britt et al. (2017). Its type specimen is BYU 14387, a set of vertebrae (3 dorsal vertebrae), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Dalton Wells Quarry, BYU Loc. 7510, which is in a Valanginian crevasse splay mudstone in the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2017Moabosaurus utahensis Britt et al.
2022Moabosaurus utahensis Sharma et al. p. 195

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Saurischia()
Sauropoda()
Gravisauria
Eusauropoda
Turiasauria
genusMoabosaurus
speciesutahensis

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Moabosaurus utahensis Britt et al. 2017
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available