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Allosaurus amplus

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Taxonomy
Camptonotus amplus was named by Marsh (1879). Its type specimen is YPM 1879, a set of limb elements (pes), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Quarry 1A, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian channel sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.

It was recombined as Camptosaurus amplus by Sauvage (1880), Marsh (1885), Zittel (1890), Winkler (1893), Marsh (1896), Nopcsa (1901), Mansel-Pleydell (1902), Hay (1902), Nopcsa (1902), Mook (1916), Lull (1924), Gilmore (1925), Hay (1930), Janensch (1933), Kuhn (1964), Norman and Weishampel (1990), Chure et al. (1994), Norman (2004), Mateus (2006), Chure et al. (2006), Pereda Suberbiola et al. (2006), Brill and Carpenter (2007), Galton (2007) and Diedrich (2011); it was synonymized subjectively with Camptosaurus dispar by Bartholomai and Molnar (1981); it was considered a nomen dubium by Norman and Barrett (2002); it was recombined as Allosaurus amplus by Galton et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Camptonotus amplus Marsh
1880Camptosaurus amplus Sauvage p. 523
1885Camptosaurus amplus Marsh p. 169
1890Camptosaurus amplus Zittel p. 755
1893Camptosaurus amplus Winkler p. 113
1896Camptosaurus amplus Marsh p. 196
1901Camptosaurus amplus Nopcsa p. 210
1902Camptosaurus amplus Hay p. 501
1902Camptosaurus amplus Mansel-Pleydell p. lxxxiii
1902Camptosaurus amplus Nopcsa p. 152
1916Camptosaurus amplus Mook p. 146
1924Camptosaurus amplus Lull p. 269
1925Camptosaurus amplus Gilmore p. 393
1930Camptosaurus amplus Hay p. 205
1933Camptosaurus amplus Janensch p. 232
1964Camptosaurus amplus Kuhn p. 10
1990Camptosaurus amplus Norman and Weishampel p. 530
1994Camptosaurus amplus Chure et al. p. 304
2004Camptosaurus amplus Norman p. 415
2006Camptosaurus amplus Chure et al. p. 237
2006Camptosaurus amplus Mateus p. 231
2006Camptosaurus amplus Pereda Suberbiola et al. p. 228
2007Camptosaurus amplus Brill and Carpenter p. 51
2007Camptosaurus amplus Galton p. 39
2011Camptosaurus amplus Diedrich p. 145
2015Allosaurus amplus Galton et al. p. 330

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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()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
superfamilyAllosauroidea
genusAllosaurus
speciesamplus()

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.

†Allosaurus amplus Marsh 1879
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available