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Panoplosaurus mirus

Reptilia - Nodosauridae

Taxonomy
Panoplosaurus mirus was named by Lambe (1919) [Originally Victoria Memorial Museum]. Its type specimen is NMC 2759, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is RTMP Quarry 8, Little Sandhill Creek (NMC), which is in a Campanian channel lag sandstone in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Panoplosaurus. It was considered monophyletic by Vickaryous et al. (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1919Panoplosaurus mirus Lambe p. 39
1921Panoplosaurus mirus Sternberg p. 93
1923Panoplosaurus mirus Gilmore p. 48
1924Panoplosaurus mirus Parks p. 7
1927Panoplosaurus minor Huene p. 261
1928Panoplosaurus mirus Sternberg p. 93
1930Panoplosaurus mirus Hay p. 237
1930Panoplosaurus mirus Russell p. 149
1940Panoplosaurus mirus Russell p. 27
1954Panoplosaurus mirus Maleev
1956Panoplosaurus mirus Maleev
1964Panoplosaurus mirus Kuhn p. 50
1964Panoplosaurus mirus Russell p. 13
1965Panoplosaurus mirus Simmons p. 70
1966Panoplosaurus mirus Russell p. 23
1970Panoplosaurus mirus Bodily p. 37
1978Panoplosaurus mirus Coombs pp. 148-149 fig. 4
1983Panoplosaurus mirus Galton p. 25
1988Panoplosaurus mirus Bakker p. 18
1990Panoplosaurus mirus Carpenter p. 284
1990Panoplosaurus mirus Coombs, Jr. p. 275
1991Panoplosaurus mirus Weishampel et al. p. 208
1996Panoplosaurus mirus Coombs, Jr. and Deméré p. 319
1999Panoplosaurus mirus Pereda Suberbiola and Barrett p. 192
2000Panoplosaurus mirus Ford p. 174
2001Panoplosaurus mirus Barrett p. 42 fig. 2.9
2001Panoplosaurus mirus Carpenter p. 457
2001Panoplosaurus miris Eberth et al. p. 58
2001Panoplosaurus mirus Pereda Suberbiola and Galton p. 199
2004Panoplosaurus mirus Vickaryous et al. p. 365
2005Panoplosaurus mirus Currie p. 5
2005Panoplosaurus mirus Ryan and Evans p. 316
2006Panoplosaurus mirus Vickaryous p. 1011
2008Panoplosaurus mirus Burns p. 1107
2008Panoplosaurus mirus Longrich p. 994
2009Panoplosaurus mirus Osi and Makádi p. 236
2011Panoplosaurus mirus Stanford et al. p. 916
2013Panoplosaurus mirus Kirkland et al. p. 7
2014Panoplosaurus mirus Arbour et al. p. 2
2014Panoplosaurus mirus Arbour et al. p. 649
2014Panoplosaurus mirus Han et al. p. 14 fig. 11
2015Panoplosaurus mirus Burns and Lucas p. 11
2016Panoplosaurus mirus Kineer et al. p. 42
2017Panoplosaurus mirus Arbour and Mallon p. 771
2021Panoplosaurus mirus Breeden et al. p. 13

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Thyreophora()
—Ankylosauria()
familyNodosauridae
genusPanoplosaurus
speciesmirus

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.

†Panoplosaurus mirus Lambe 1919
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
K. Carpenter 1990As for the genus.