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Efraasia minor
Taxonomy
Teratosaurus minor was named by Huene (1908). Its type specimen is SMNS 11838, a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Burrer Quarry, Pfaffenhofen, which is in an Alaunian terrestrial sandstone/marl in the Löwenstein Formation of Germany.
It was synonymized subjectively with Sellosaurus gracilis by Galton (1985) and Galton (1985); it was considered a nomen dubium by Galton (2001) and Galton and Upchurch (2004); it was recombined as Efraasia minor by Yates (2003), Upchurch et al. (2007), Galton (2007), Barrett et al. (2007), Galton et al. (2007), Irmis and Knoll (2008), Bittencourt and Kellner (2009), Yates (2010), Langer et al. (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Becerra et al. (2016) and Nau et al. (2020).
It was synonymized subjectively with Sellosaurus gracilis by Galton (1985) and Galton (1985); it was considered a nomen dubium by Galton (2001) and Galton and Upchurch (2004); it was recombined as Efraasia minor by Yates (2003), Upchurch et al. (2007), Galton (2007), Barrett et al. (2007), Galton et al. (2007), Irmis and Knoll (2008), Bittencourt and Kellner (2009), Yates (2010), Langer et al. (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Becerra et al. (2016) and Nau et al. (2020).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1908 | Teratosaurus minor Huene p. 174 figs. 188-191 |
| 1908 | Sellosaurus fraasi Huene p. 183 figs. 74-75 |
| 1909 | Sellosaurus fraasii Fraas p. xxxiv |
| 1912 | Thecodontosaurus diagnosticus Fraas p. lxvi |
| 1912 | Thecodontosaurus diagnosticus Obermeyer p. 135 |
| 1913 | Teratosaurus minor Fraas p. 1097 |
| 1913 | Thecodontosaurus diagnosticus Fraas p. 1099 |
| 1913 | Sellosaurus fraasii Fraas p. 1100 |
| 1914 | Teratosaurus minor Fraas p. 126 |
| 1914 | Thecodontosaurus diagnosticus Fraas p. 130 |
| 1914 | Sellosaurus fraasii Fraas p. 131 |
| 1914 | Sellosaurus fraasii Hennig p. 418 |
| 1914 | Teratosaurus minor Hennig p. 418 |
| 1914 | Thecodontosaurus diagnosticus Hennig p. 418 |
| 1914 | Thecodontosaurus diagnosticus Huene p. 12 |
| 1914 | Sellosaurus fraasi Huene p. 14 |
| 1914 | Teratosaurus minor Huene p. 14 |
| 1915 | Sellosaurus fraasi Huene p. 3 |
| 1932 | Palaeosaurus diagnosticus Huene p. 73 fig. 7 |
| 1938 | Palaeosaurus diagnosticus Berckhemer p. 196 |
| 1938 | Teratosaurus minor Berckhemer p. 196 |
| 1938 | Palaeosaurus diagnosticus Schmidt p. 71 |
| 1938 | Teratosaurus minor Schmidt p. 71 |
| 1939 | Palaeosaurus diagnosticus Kuhn p. 57 |
| 1939 | Teratosaurus minor Kuhn p. 59 |
| 1941 | Palaeosaurus diagnosticus Huene p. 141 |
| 1941 | Palaeosaurus diagnosticus Young p. 206 |
| 1967 | Thecodontosaurus diagnosticus Charig p. 712 |
| 1970 | Palaeosauriscus diagnosticus Steel p. 26 |
| 1970 | Teratosaurus minor Steel p. 26 |
| 1971 | Palaeosauriscus diagnosticus Kuhn p. 16 |
| 1971 | Teratosaurus minor Kuhn p. 16 |
| 1973 | Efraasia diagnostica Galton p. 247 |
| 1976 | Efraasia diagnostica Galton and Cluver p. 137 |
| 2003 | Efraasia minor Yates p. 328 |
| 2006 | Efraasia diagnostica Langer and Benton p. 318 fig. 4 |
| 2007 | Efraasia minor Barrett et al. p. 321 |
| 2007 | Efraasia minor Galton p. 517 |
| 2007 | Efraasia minor Galton et al. p. 120 |
| 2007 | Efraasia minor Upchurch et al. p. 76 |
| 2008 | Efraasia minor Irmis and Knoll p. 122 |
| 2009 | Efraasia minor Bittencourt and Kellner p. 32 |
| 2010 | Efraasia minor Langer et al. p. 70 |
| 2010 | Efraasia minor Yates p. 746 |
| 2011 | Efraasia minor Apaldetti et al. p. 4 |
| 2016 | Efraasia minor Becerra et al. p. 560 |
| 2020 | Efraasia minor Nau et al. p. 704 |
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†Efraasia minor Huene 1908
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Invalid names: Palaeosaurus diagnosticus Fraas 1912 [synonym], Sellosaurus fraasi Huene 1908 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available