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Zephyrosaurus schaffi

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Zephyrosaurus schaffi was named by Sues (1980). Its type specimen is MCZ 4392, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Wolf Creek Canyon (MCZ), which is in an Albian terrestrial sandstone in the Cloverly Formation of Montana.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1980Zephyrosaurus schaffi Sues p. 53
1983Zephyrosaurus schaffi Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1989Zephyrosaurus schaffi Galton p. 218
1990Zephyrosaurus schaffi Sues and Norman p. 500
1992Zephyrosaurus schaffi Weishampel and Heinrich p. 171
1997Zephyrosaurus schaffi Sues p. 357
2002Zephyrosaurus schaffi Buchholz p. 19
2003Zephyrosaurus schaffi Godefroit and Knoll p. 6
2003Zephyrosaurus schaffi Kutter p. 69A
2004Zephyrosaurus schaffi Norman et al. p. 396
2004Zephyrosaurus schaffi Stanford et al. p. 257
2008Zephyrosaurus schaffi Butler et al. p. 11
2009Zephyrosaurus schaffi Butler and Zhao p. 71
2009Zephyrosaurus schaffi Galton p. 215
2012Zephyrosaurus schaffi Han et al. p. 1391 fig. 14
2015Zephyrosaurus schaffi Weems and Bachman p. 214
2016Zephyrosaurus schaffi Hübner p. 323
2018Zephyrosaurus schaffi Bell et al. p. 17
2019Zephyrosaurus schaffi Andrzejewski et al. p. 8
2019Zephyrosaurus schaffi Herne et al. p. 560
2020Zephyrosaurus schaffi Dieudonné et al.

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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
—Cerapoda
—Ornithopoda()
subfamilyOrodrominae
genusZephyrosaurus
speciesschaffi

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.

†Zephyrosaurus schaffi Sues 1980
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
R. J. Butler et al. 2008Prominent boss on anterolateral maxilla; short, massive, triangular palpebral; boss on jugal; postorbital with distinct projection into orbit; dentary/maxillary teeth with numerous subparallel ridges connecting to marginal denticles.