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Icarosaurus
Taxonomy
Icarosaurus was named by Colbert (1966). It is not extant. Its type is Icarosaurus siefkeri.
It was assigned to Kuehneosauridae by Robinson (1967), Estes (1983), Benton (1985) and Carroll (1988).
It was assigned to Kuehneosauridae by Robinson (1967), Estes (1983), Benton (1985) and Carroll (1988).
Species
I. siefkeri (type species)
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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.
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| P. L. Robinson 1967 | Ten or eleven pairs of dorsal ribs which can be folded back along the body; of these the more anterior have shafts whose length is at least ten times the width of the back of the skull, the shafts rapidly tapering from the proximal end, the length of the following pairs progressively diminishing pos- teriorly. Most of these ribs have a pronounced ventral curvature along the course of the shaft. Transverse processes of the dorsal vertebrae show an abrupt change in length and struc- ture at the beginning of the mid-dorsal series, i.e. as between the last sternal vertebra and the first mid-dorsal vertebra which bears an
elongate rib. |
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Colbert 1970, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||