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Arctosaurus osborni
Taxonomy
Arctosaurus osborni was named by Adams (1875). Its type specimen is NMI 62 1971, a set of vertebrae, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Rendezvous Mountain, Cameron Island, which is in a Triassic terrestrial sandstone in the Heiberg Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Arctosaurus.
It was considered a nomen vanum by Welles (1984); it was considered a nomen dubium by Nesbitt et al. (2007).
It was considered a nomen vanum by Welles (1984); it was considered a nomen dubium by Nesbitt et al. (2007).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1875 | Arctosaurus osborni Adams p. 179 fig. 1 |
| 1877 | Arctosaurus osborni Adams p. 316 |
| 1889 | Arctosaurus osborni Lydekker pp. 352-353 |
| 1901 | Arctosaurus osborni Nopcsa p. 196 |
| 1902 | Arctosaurus osborni Hay p. 492 |
| 1902 | Arctosaurus osborni Huene |
| 1905 | Arctosaurus osborni Lambe p. 26 |
| 1930 | Arctosaurus osborni Hay p. 172 |
| 1970 | Arctosaurus osborni Steel p. 44 |
| 1976 | Arctosaurus osborni Galton and Cluver pp. 150-151 fig. 13 |
| 2016 | Arctosaurus osborni Sues |
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†Arctosaurus osborni Adams 1875
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available