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Mussaurus

Reptilia

Taxonomy

Mussaurus was named by Bonaparte and Vince (1979). Its type is Mussaurus patagonicus. It was considered monophyletic by Otero and Pol (2013).

It was assigned to Mussauridae by Bonaparte and Vince (1979); to Anchisauridae by Carroll (1988); to Plateosauridae by Novas (1997) and Galton and Upchurch (2004); to Sauropodomorpha by Upchurch et al. (2007); to Anchisauria by Otero and Pol (2012); and to Sauropodiformes by Otero and Pol (2013) and McPhee et al. (2015).

Species

M. patagonicus (type species)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1979	Mussaurus Bonaparte and Vince p. 175
1988	Mussaurus Carroll
1997	Mussaurus Novas p. 681
2004	Mussaurus Galton and Upchurch p. 235 fig. 12.11
2007	Mussaurus Upchurch et al. p. 62 fig. 3
2012	Mussaurus Otero and Pol p. R34
2013	Mussaurus Otero and Pol
2015	Mussaurus McPhee et al. p. 19 fig. 12

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Saurischia	()
—	Eusaurischia
—	Sauropodomorpha	(Huene 1932)
—	Massopoda
—	Sauropodiformes
genus	Mussaurus

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.

G. †Mussaurus Bonaparte and Vince 1979

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†Mussaurus patagonicus Bonaparte and Vince 1979

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Created:

2017-04-17 15:16:03

Modified:

2017-04-17 15:16:03

Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Sinemurian or 199.30000 to 190.80000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Sinemurian	199.3 - 190.8	Argentina (Santa Cruz)	M. patagonicus (52015 179278)