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Coelophysis bauri

Reptilia - Coelophysidae

Taxonomy
Coelurus bauri was named by Cope (1887). Its type specimen is AMNH 2722, 7224 (neotype), a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ghost Ranch Quarry, which is in a Rhaetian crevasse splay siltstone/conglomerate in the Chinle Formation of New Mexico.

It was recombined as Tanystropheus bauri by Cope (1887) and Cope (1887); it was considered a nomen dubium by Ostrom (1981), Hunt and Lucas (1991) and Sullivan (1994); it was recombined as Coelophysis bauri by Cope (1889), Nopcsa (1901), Hay (1902), Huene (1914), Huene (1915), Huene (1926), Hay (1930), Kuhn (1939), Colbert (1958), Colbert (1964), Steel (1970), Welles (1984), Parrish and Carpenter (1986), Padian (1986), Gauthier (1986), Paul (1988), Rowe (1989), Rowe and Gauthier (1990), Colbert (1990), Sanz et al. (1992), Long and Murry (1995), Courel and Demathieu (1995), Buffetaut (1997), Rowe et al. (1997), Dodson (1997), Hunt et al. (1998), Rauhut (2003), Bristowe and Raath (2004), Tykoski and Rowe (2004), Rinehart et al. (2004), Heckert et al. (2005), Heckert et al. (2005), Yates (2005), Gay (2005), Smith and Merrill (2006), Lucas et al. (2006), Langer and Benton (2006), Weems (2006), Ezcurra (2006), Nesbitt et al. (2007), Upchurch et al. (2007), Sampson and Witmer (2007), Spielmann et al. (2007), Rinehart et al. (2007), Ezcurra and Novas (2007), Ezcurra (2007), Ezcurra and Cuny (2007), Nesbitt and Stocker (2008), Bittencourt and Kellner (2009), Nesbitt et al. (2009), Ezcurra and Brusatte (2011), Jasinski (2011), Sues et al. (2011), Petti et al. (2011), Carrano et al. (2012), Ibiricu et al. (2013), Xing et al. (2014), Marzola and Dalla Vecchia (2014), Nesbitt and Ezcurra (2015), White et al. (2015), Martínez et al. (2016), Griffin and Nesbitt (2016), Rauhut and Pol (2017), Ezcurra (2017), Martinez and Apaldetti (2017), Dal Sasso et al. (2018), Senter and Sullivan (2019) and Dalla Vecchia (2020).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1887Coelurus bauri Cope
1887Coelurus longicollis Cope
1887Tanystropheus bauri Cope
1887Tanystropheus longicollis Cope
1887Tanystropheus bauri Cope p. 226
1887Tanystropheus willistoni Cope p. 227
1887Coelurus bauri Cope p. 368
1887Coelurus longicollis Cope p. 368
1889Coelophysis bauri Cope p. 626
1889Coelophysis longicollis Cope p. 626
1889Coelophysis willistoni Cope p. 626
1901Coelophysis longicollis Nopcsa p. 201
1901Coelophysis willistoni Nopcsa p. 201
1901Coelophysis bauri Nopcsa p. 202
1902Coelophysis bauri Hay p. 493
1902Coelophysis longicollis Hay p. 493
1902Coelophysis willistoni Hay p. 493
1914Coelophysis bauri Huene p. 11
1914Coelophysis longicollis Huene p. 11
1914Coelophysis willistoni Huene p. 11
1915Coelophysis bauri Huene p. 500
1915Coelophysis longicollis Huene p. 500
1915Coelophysis willistoni Huene p. 500
1922Coelophysis longicollis Case p. 81
1926Coelophysis bauri Huene p. 5
1926Coelophysis longicollis Huene p. 5
1926Coelophysis willistoni Huene p. 5
1927Coelophysis longicollis Case p. 210
1930Coelophysis bauri Hay p. 186
1930Coelophysis longicollis Hay p. 186
1930Coelophysis willistoni Hay p. 186
1939Coelophysis bauri Kuhn p. 35
1939Coelophysis longicollis Kuhn p. 36
1939Coelophysis willistoni Kuhn p. 36
1940Coelophysis longicollis Huene p. 37
1958Coelophysis bauri Colbert p. 77
1964Coelophysis bauri Colbert p. 9
1965Coelophysis longicollis Simmons p. 56
1970Coelophysis bauri Steel p. 10
1984Coelophysis bauri Welles pp. 159-160
1984Longosaurus longicollis Welles p. 160
1986Coelophysis bauri Gauthier p. 9
1986Coelophysis bauri Padian pp. 57-58
1986Coelophysis longicollis Parrish and Carpenter p. 156
1986Coelophysis bauri Parrish and Carpenter p. 159
1988Coelophysis bauri Paul p. 260
1989Coelophysis bauri Rowe p. 125
1990Coelophysis bauri Colbert pp. 81-82
1990Coelophysis bauri Rowe and Gauthier p. 152
1991Rioarribasaurus colberti Hunt and Lucas p. 195
1992Coelophysis bauri Sanz et al. p. 50
1993Rioarribasaurus colberti Lucas p. G12
1993Syntarsus colberti Paul pp. 401-402
1994Rioarribasaurus colberti Sullivan p. 48A
1995Coelophysis bauri Courel and Demathieu p. 86
1995Coelophysis bauri Long and Murry p. 186
1997Coelophysis bauri Buffetaut p. 351
1997Coelophysis bauri Dodson p. 11
1997Coelophysis bauri Rowe et al. p. 106
1998Coelophysis bauri Hunt et al. p. 521
2003Coelophysis bauri Rauhut p. 12
2004Coelophysis bauri Bristowe and Raath p. 39
2004Coelophysis bauri Rinehart et al. p. 104A
2004Coelophysis bauri Tykoski and Rowe p. 48
2005Coelophysis bauri Gay p. 278
2005Coelophysis bauri Heckert et al. p. 35
2005Coelophysis bauri Yates p. 107
2006Coelophysis bauri Ezcurra p. 650
2006Coelophysis bauri Langer and Benton p. 331 fig. 8
2006Coelophysis bauri Lucas et al. p. 90
2006Coelophysis bauri Smith and Merrill pp. 595-597
2006Coelophysis bauri Weems p. 373 fig. 5
2007Coelophysis bauri Ezcurra p. 190
2007Coelophysis bauri Ezcurra and Cuny p. 78 fig. 6
2007Coelophysis bauri Ezcurra and Novas p. 36
2007Coelophysis logicollis Gand et al. p. 74
2007Coelophysis bauri Nesbitt et al. p. 218
2007Coelophysis bauri Rinehart et al. p. 175
2007Coelophysis bauri Sampson and Witmer p. 38
2007Coelophysis bauri Spielmann et al. pp. 384-385
2007Coelophysis bauri Upchurch et al. p. 75
2008Coelophysis bauri Nesbitt and Stocker p. 1067
2009Coelophysis bauri Bittencourt and Kellner p. 8
2009Coelophysis bauri Nesbitt et al. p. 1531
2011Coelophysis bauri Ezcurra and Brusatte p. 764
2011Coelophysis bauri Jasinski p. 195
2011Coelophysis bauri Petti et al. p. 38
2011Coelophysis bauri Sues et al. p. 3459
2012Coelophysis bauri Carrano et al. p. 227
2013Coelophysis bauri Ibiricu et al. p. 8
2014Coelophysis bauri Marzola and Dalla Vecchia p. 14
2014Coelophysis bauri Xing et al. p. 1653
2015Coelophysis bauri Nesbitt and Ezcurra p. 515
2015Coelophysis bauri White et al. p. 11
2016Coelophysis bauri Griffin and Nesbitt p. 1
2016Coelophysis bauri Martínez et al. p. 63
2017Coelophysis bauri Ezcurra p. 508
2017Coelophysis bauri Martinez and Apaldetti p. 493
2017Coelophysis bauri Rauhut and Pol p. 553
2018Coelophysis bauri Dal Sasso et al. p. 31
2019Coelophysis bauri Senter and Sullivan p. 2
2020Coelophysis bauri Dalla Vecchia p. 609

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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
superfamilyCoelophysoidea
familyCoelophysidae
subfamilyCoelophysinae
genusCoelophysis
speciesbauri()

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.

Coelophysis bauri Cope 1887
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Invalid names: Coelurus longicollis Cope 1887 [synonym], Rioarribasaurus colberti Hunt and Lucas 1991 [synonym], Tanystropheus willistoni Cope 1887 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
G. S. Paul 1993 (Syntarsus colberti)Moderately gracile skull and skeleton. Post temporal fenestra may be present, teeth small, row of 22-26 maxillary teeth ends beneath orbit, 27 dentary teeth. Neck relatively long. Pubis as long as or longer than femur, distal pubic and ischial expansions relatively large, hindlimbs relatively short.