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Hoplitosaurus marshi

Reptilia - Nodosauridae

Taxonomy
Stegosaurus marshi was named by Lucas (1901). Its type specimen is USNM 4752 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Calico Canyon (USNM), which is in a Barremian terrestrial horizon in the Lakota Formation of South Dakota. It was considered monophyletic by Vickaryous et al. (2004).

It was recombined as Polacanthus marshi by Blows (1987), Pereda-Suberbiola (1994), Blows (1996), Pereda Suberbiola and Barrett (1999) and Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo (2003); it was recombined as Hoplitosaurus marshi by Lucas (1902), Lull (1910), Gilmore (1914), Hennig (1915), Mook (1916), Lull (1921), Hay (1930), Stromer (1934), Kuhn (1964), Bodily (1970), Madsen and Miller (1979), Galton (1980), Galton (1983), Carpenter and Kirkland (1998), Pereda Suberbiola et al. (1999), Ford (2000), Carpenter (2001), Blows (2001), Carpenter et al. (2001), Ford and Kirkland (2001), Vickaryous et al. (2004), Kirkland et al. (2013), Han et al. (2014) and Kirkland et al. (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1901Stegosaurus marshi Lucas p. 435 figs. 23-24
1902Hoplitosaurus marshi Lucas p. 435
1910Hoplitosaurus marshi Lull p. 30 fig. 7
1914Hoplitosaurus marshi Gilmore p. 114
1915Hoplitosaurus marshi Hennig p. 13
1916Hoplitosaurus marshi Mook p. 145
1921Hoplitosaurus marshi Lull p. 124
1930Hoplitosaurus marshi Hay p. 232
1934Hoplitosaurus marshi Stromer p. 63
1964Hoplitosaurus marshi Kuhn p. 47
1970Hoplitosaurus marshi Bodily p. 37
1979Hoplitosaurus marshi Madsen and Miller p. 13
1980Hoplitosaurus marshi Galton p. 829
1983Hoplitosaurus marshi Galton p. 9
1987Polacanthus marshi Blows pp. 575-576
1994Polacanthus marshi Pereda-Suberbiola p. 146
1996Polacanthus marshi Blows p. 677
1998Hoplitosaurus marshi Carpenter and Kirkland p. 267
1999Polacanthus marshi Pereda Suberbiola and Barrett p. 192
1999Hoplitosaurus marshi Pereda Suberbiola et al. p. 271
2000Hoplitosaurus marshi Ford p. 174
2001Hoplitosaurus marshi Blows p. 376
2001Hoplitosaurus marshi Carpenter p. 457
2001Hoplitosaurus marshi Carpenter et al. p. 213
2001Hoplitosaurus marshi Ford and Kirkland p. 247
2003Polacanthus marshi Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo p. 297
2004Hoplitosaurus marshi Vickaryous et al. p. 366
2013Hoplitosaurus marshi Kirkland et al. p. 5
2014Hoplitosaurus marshi Han et al. p. 14 fig. 11
2016Hoplitosaurus marshi Kirkland et al. p. 38

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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()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Thyreophora()
—Ankylosauria()
familyNodosauridae
genusHoplitosaurus
speciesmarshi()

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.

†Hoplitosaurus marshi Lucas 1901
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available