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Fulgurotherium australe

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Fulgurotherium australe was named by Huene (1932). Its type specimen is BMNH R.3719, a set of limb elements, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Wollaston, Lightning Ridge, which is in a Cenomanian estuary/bay claystone in the Griman Creek Formation of Australia.

It was synonymized subjectively with Walgettosuchus woodwardi by Steel (1970); it was considered a nomen dubium by Agnolin et al. (2010); it was considered a nomen dubium by Bell et al. (2018), Bell et al. (2019), Herne et al. (2019), Bell et al. (2019) and Duncan et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1932Fulgurotherium australe Huene pp. 69-70 figs. Pl. 3:11
1939Fulgurotherium australe Kuhn p. 56
1944Fulgurotherium australe Huene p. 449
1980Fulgurotherium australe Molnar p. 54
1981Fulgurotherium australe Olshevsky p. 34
1984Fulgurotherium australe Molnar p. 154
1986Fulgurotherium australe Molnar and Galton pp. 237-238
1990Fulgurotherium australe Sues and Norman p. 500
1991Fulgurotherium australe Molnar p. 650
1992Fulgurotherium australe Molnar p. 265
1994Fulgurotherium australe Rich and Vickers-Rich p. 1
1996Fulgurotherium australe Molnar pp. 650-651
1996Fulgurotherium australe Rich p. 715
1997Fulgurotherium australe Sues p. 357
2004Fulgurotherium australe Norman et al. p. 394
2006Fulgurotherium australe Scanlon p. 280
2009Fulgurotherium australe Galton p. 225
2018Fulgurotherium australe Herne et al. p. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
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()
Ornithischia()
Genasauria
Cerapoda
Ornithopoda()
Clypeodonta
Iguanodontia()
genusFulgurotherium
speciesaustrale

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.

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Diagnosis
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