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Coelurus fragilis

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Coelurus fragilis was named by Marsh (1879). Its type specimen is YPM 1993, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Quarry 13, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian crevasse splay sandstone/claystone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Coelurus fragilis Marsh
1880Coelurus fragilis Sauvage p. 523
1884Coelurus agilis Marsh p. 335 fig. 10
1884Coelurus agilis Vetter p. 362
1884Coelurus fragilis Vetter p. 362
1887Coelurus fragilis Cope p. 369
1888Coelurus fragilis Seeley p. 81
1889Coelurus fragilis Lydekker p. 120
1890Coelurus fragilis Zittel p. 731
1896Coelurus fragilis Marsh figs. Pl. 7
1900Coelurus fragilis Knight p. 384
1901Coelurus fragilis Nopcsa p. 202
1902Coelurus agilis Hay p. 493
1902Coelurus fragilis Hay p. 493
1911Coelurus fragilis Lull p. 187
1916Coelurus agilis Mook p. 142
1916Coelurus fragilis Mook p. 142
1920Coelurus fragilis Gilmore p. 127
1920Coelurus agilis Gilmore p. 128
1928Coelurus fragilis Perrier p. 3087
1930Coelurus agilis Hay p. 185
1930Coelurus fragilis Hay p. 185
1939Coelurus agilis Kuhn p. 40
1939Coelurus fragilis Kuhn p. 40
1970Coelurus agilis Steel p. 15
1970Coelurus fragilis Steel p. 15
1970Coelurus agilis Swinton p. 127
1970Coelurus fragilis Swinton p. 127
1972Coelurus fragilis Russell p. 378
1972Elaphrosaurus agilis Russell p. 378
1980Coelurus fragilis Ostrom pp. 245-249
1981Coelurus agilis Molnar et al. p. 144
1982Coelurus fragilis Santafé et al. p. 83
1984Coelurus fragilis Welles p. 162
1988Coelurus fragilis Paul p. 300
1990Coelurus fragilis Breithaupt p. 8
1997Coelurus agilis Carpenter p. 91
1997Coelurus fragilis Norell and Makovicky p. 24
2000Coelurus fragilis Chure p. 2
2003Coelurus fragilis Rauhut p. 25
2004Coelurus fragilis Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 76
2005Coelurus fragilis Carpenter et al. p. 24
2006Coelurus fragilis Chure et al. p. 236
2006Coelurus fragilis Hunt and Lucas p. 116
2006Coelurus agilis Mateus p. 231
2006Coelurus fragilis Mateus p. 231
2009Coelurus fragilis Zanno et al. p. S15
2013Coelurus fragilis Poropat and Kear p. 106

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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
—Coelurosauria()
genusCoelurus
speciesfragilis

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.

†Coelurus fragilis Marsh 1879
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Invalid names: Coelurus agilis Marsh 1884 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available