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Amargasaurus cazaui

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Amargasaurus cazaui was named by Salgado and Bonaparte (1991). Its type specimen is MACN-N 15, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is La Amarga (main site), which is in a Barremian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the La Amarga Formation of Argentina.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1984Amargasaurus groeberi Bonaparte p. 136
1991Amargasaurus cazaui Salgado and Bonaparte
1992Amargasaurus groeberi Molnar p. 265
1992Amargasaurus cazaui Salgado and Calvo p. 337
1995Amargasaurus cazaui Calvo and Salgado p. 30 fig. 18
1996Amargasaurus cazaui Bonaparte p. 97
1997Amargasaurus cazaui Novas p. 683
1999Amargasaurus cazaui Salgado p. 209
2002Amargasaurus cazaui Wilson p. 273
2003Amargasaurus cazaui Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo p. 295
2004Amargasaurus cazaui Upchurch et al. p. 264
2005Amargasaurus cazaui Gallina and Apesteguía p. 158
2005Amargasaurus cazaui Salgado and Coria p. 435
2006Amargasaurus cazaui Harris p. 1110
2007Amargasaurus cazaui Apesteguía p. 539
2007Amargasaurus cazaui González Riga and Astini p. 290
2010Amargasaurus cazaui Calvo and Porfiri p. 101
2012Amargasaurus cazaui Coria et al. p. R44
2012Amargasaurus cazaui Grellet-Tinner et al. p. 41
2012Amargasaurus cazaui Ibiricu et al. p. 226
2013Amargasaurus cazaui Coria et al. p. R12
2013Amargasaurus cazaui Pereda-Suberbiola et al. p. 66
2013Amargasaurus cazaui Tschopp and Mateus p. 877
2014Amargasaurus cazaui Mocho et al.
2014Amargasaurus cazaui Schwarz-Wings and Böhm p. 97
2015Amargasaurus cazaui de Jesus Faria et al. p. 155
2019Amargasaurus cazaui Gallina et al. p. 1
2021Amargasaurus cazaui Paulina-Carabajal and Calvo p. 5
2021Amargasaurus cazaui Ren et al. p. 1876
2021Amargasaurus cazaui Windholz 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()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Saurischia()
Sauropoda()
Gravisauria
Eusauropoda
Neosauropoda
Diplodocoidea()
Diplodocimorpha
Flagellicaudata
Dicraeosauridae()
genusAmargasaurus
speciescazaui

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.

Amargasaurus cazaui Salgado and Bonaparte 1991
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Invalid names: Amargasaurus groeberi Bonaparte 1984 [replaced]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available