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Mierasaurus bobyoungi

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Mierasaurus bobyoungi was named by Royo-Torres et al. (2017). Its type specimen is UMNH.VP.26004, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Doelling's Bowl Bonebed (UMNH VP Loc. 1208), which is in a Berriasian/Valanginian terrestrial chert in the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah.

Entered
by P. Mannion on 2017-10-30

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2017Mierasaurus bobyoungi Royo-Torres et al.
2021Mierasaurus bobyoungi Bindellini and Dal Sasso p. 151

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Sauropodomorpha(Huene 1932)
—Massopoda
—Sauropodiformes
—Sauropoda()
—Gravisauria
—Eusauropoda
—Turiasauria
genusMierasaurus
speciesbobyoungi

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.

†Mierasaurus bobyoungi Royo-Torres et al. 2017
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available