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Arctosaurus osborni

Reptilia

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).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1875Arctosaurus osborni Adams p. 179 fig. 1
1877Arctosaurus osborni Adams p. 316
1889Arctosaurus osborni Lydekker pp. 352-353
1901Arctosaurus osborni Nopcsa p. 196
1902Arctosaurus osborni Hay p. 492
1902Arctosaurus osborni Huene
1905Arctosaurus osborni Lambe p. 26
1930Arctosaurus osborni Hay p. 172
1970Arctosaurus osborni Steel p. 44
1976Arctosaurus osborni Galton and Cluver pp. 150-151 fig. 13
2016Arctosaurus osborni Sues

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
genusArctosaurus
speciesosborni

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.

†Arctosaurus osborni Adams 1875
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Late/Upper Triassic or 237.00000 to 201.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Triassic237.0 - 201.4Canada (Nunavut) Arctosaurus osborni (type locality: 38500)