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Massospondylus carinatus
Taxonomy
Massospondylus carinatus was named by Owen (1854) [plastotypes: NHM R3033–3037, SAM-PK-K958–976]. Its type specimen is Royal College of Surgeons, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Beauchef Abbey (213), Harrismith (zone B/1), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian terrestrial sandstone/shale in the Elliot Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Massospondylus.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1854 | Massospondylus carinatus Owen p. 97 |
1892 | Massospondylus carinatus Seeley p. 190 |
1895 | Massospondylus carinatus Seeley p. 102–103 |
1901 | Massospondylus carinatus Nopcsa p. 197 |
1909 | Massospondylus carinatus Broom p. 289 |
1910 | Massosaurus carinatus Hay p. 16 |
1912 | Massospondylus carinatus Broom p. 82 |
1913 | Massospondylus carinatus Broom p. 364 |
1914 | Massospondylus carinatus Huene p. 13 |
1920 | Massospondylus carinatus Van Hoepen p. 91 |
1924 | Massospondylus carinatus Haughton |
1939 | Massospondylus carinatus Kuhn p. 63 |
1940 | Massospondylus carinatus Huene p. 263 |
1954 | Massospondylus carinatus Haughton and Brink p. 34 |
1961 | Massospondylus carinatus Anonymous p. 137 |
1970 | Massospondylus carinatus Ellenberger p. 347 |
1970 | Massospondylus carinatus Steel p. 49 |
1974 | Massospondylus carinatus Ellenberger p. 9 |
1975 | Massospondylus carinatus Thompson p. 19 |
1976 | Massospondylus carinatus Galton and Cluver p. 145 |
1981 | Massospondylus carinatus Cruickshank p. 307 |
1984 | Massospondylus carinatus Olsen and Galton p. 91 |
1997 | Massospondylus carinatus Erickson p. 5 |
2000 | Massospondylus carinatus Lingham-Soliar and Borderick p. 137 |
2003 | Massospondylus carinatus Yates pp. 320-321 |
2004 | Massospondylus carinatus Galton and Upchurch p. 235 |
2004 | Massospondylus carinatus Sues et al. p. 240 |
2005 | Massospondylus carinatus Barrett and Yates p. 123 |
2005 | Massospondylus carinatus Yates p. 108 |
2006 | Massospondylus carinatus Langer and Benton p. 339 fig. 11 |
2006 | Massospondylus carinatus Weems p. 371 |
2007 | Massospondylus carinatus Barrett et al. p. 321 |
2007 | Massospondylus carinatus Galton p. 518 |
2007 | Massospondylus carinatus Upchurch et al. p. 76 |
2009 | Massospondylus carinatus Barrett p. 1033 |
2009 | Massospondylus carinatus Bittencourt and Kellner p. 42 |
2010 | Massospondylus carinatus Langer et al. p. 90 |
2010 | Massospondylus carinatus Reisz et al. p. 1653 |
2010 | Massospondylus carinatus Yates p. 743 |
2011 | Massospondylus carinatus Apaldetti et al. p. 4 |
2011 | Massospondylus carinatus Yates et al. p. 610 |
2012 | Massospondylus carinatus Knoll et al. p. 2 |
2013 | Massospondylus carinatus Cerda et al. p. 111 |
2013 | Massospondylus carinatus Tschopp and Mateus p. 328 |
2016 | Massospondylus carinatus Lee p. 3 |
2019 | Massospondylus carinatus Veiga et al. p. 13 |
2020 | Massospondylus carinatus Moro et al. |
2020 | Massospondylus carinatus Sakagami and Kawabe p. 12 |
2021 | Massospondylus carinatus Peyre de Fabrègues et al. p. 327 |
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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.
†Massospondylus carinatus Owen 1854
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available