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Malawisaurus dixeyi

Reptilia

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1911Tornieria dixeyi Sternfeld
1928Gigantosaurus dixeyi Haughton pp. 70-72
1932Tornieria dixeyi Stromer p. 7
1939Tornieria dixeyi Kuhn p. 87
1954Tornieria dixeyi Lavocat
1970Tornieria dixeyi Steel p. 78
1970Tornieria dixeyi Swinton p. 184
1990Tornieria dixeyi McIntosh p. 352
1993Malawisaurus dixeyi Jacobs et al. p. 525
1996Malawisaurus dixeyi Calvo and Salgado p. 392
1996Malawisaurus dixeyi Jacobs et al. p. 599
1997Tornieria dixeya Chinsamy p. 677
1997Malawisaurus dixeyi Salgado and Calvo pp. 37-38
1997Malawisaurus dixeyi Salgado et al. p. 5
1999Malawisaurus dixeyi Prasad and Sahni p. 382
2002Malawisaurus dixeyi Wilson p. 274
2003Malawisaurus dixeyi Calvo and González Riga
2003Malawisaurus dixeyi Salgado p. 442
2004Malawisaurus dixeyi Upchurch et al. p. 269
2005Malawisaurus dixeyi Apesteguía p. 253 fig. 12.2
2005Malawisaurus dixeyi Campos et al. p. 569
2005Malawisaurus dixeyi Curry Rogers p. 66
2005Malawisaurus dixeyi Gomani pp. 2-3
2006Malawisaurus dixeyi Kellner et al. p. 2
2007Malawisaurus dixeyi Calvo et al. p. 530
2007Malawisaurus dixeyi Castro et al. p. 198
2007Malawisaurus dixeyi Medeiros et al. p. 418
2008Malawisaurus dixeyi Filippi and Garrido p. 583
2008Malawisaurus dixeyi Lopes and Buchmann p. 70
2009Malawisaurus dixeyi González Riga et al. p. 141
2009Malawisaurus dixeyi Zhang et al. p. 220
2010Malawisaurus dixeyi Casal and Ibiricu p. 253
2010Malawisaurus dixeyi García et al. p. 415
2011Malawisaurus dixeyi Díez Díaz et al. p. 522
2011Malawisaurus dixeyi Grellet-Tinner et al. p. 626
2011Malawisaurus dixeyi Navarrete et al. p. 8
2012Malawisaurus dixeyi D'Emic
2012Malawisaurus dixeyi Díez Díaz et al. p. 265
2014Malawisaurus dixeyi Mocho et al.
2015Malawisaurus dixei Cerda et al. p. 2
2015Malawisaurus dixeyi García et al. p. 41
2017Malawisaurus dixeyi Gorscak et al. p. 2
2017Malawisaurus dixeyi Silva Junior et al. p. 25
2018Malawisaurus dixeyi Simón et al. p. 7
2021Malawisaurus dixeyi Gallina et al. p. 36
2022Malawisaurus dixeyi Navarro et al. p. 327

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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
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Saurischia()
Sauropoda()
Titanosauria
Lithostrotia
genusMalawisaurus
speciesdixeyi()

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.

Malawisaurus dixeyi Haughton 1928
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
E. M. Gomani 2005Malawisaurus is characterized by high-angled premaxillae; posteriorly broad, angled infratemporal fenestrae; short and divergent basipterygoid processes; dentary with 15 alveoli that extend two thirds the length of the element; thin splenial with a spenial foramen; broad but not spoon-shaped teeth with high-angled wear facets; undivided cervical neural spines and pleurocoels; cervical prezygapophyses extend beyond the anterior end of the centrum; presence of pre- and post-spinal laminae in distal cervicals; ribs in proximal and middle cervicals extend beyond the end of the succeeding centrum; elongate, eye-shaped pleurocoels on dorsal vertebrae; infradiapophyseal laminae of distal dorsals not forked; six sacral vertebrae; sacral neural spines fused into a dorsal plate that overhangs the neural arches; strongly procoelous proximal but platycoelous middle and distal caudals; proximal caudals with well-developed pre-spinal and post-spinal laminae; at least five V-shaped middle chevrons; and metacarpals with distal articular facets.