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Necrosaurus cayluxi

Reptilia - Necrosauridae

Taxonomy
Necrosaurus cayluxi was named by Filhol (1873). Its type specimen is MNHN specimen figured by Filhol 1877 pl. 26 fig. 434 - lost? (dentary) and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Phosphorites du Quercy (for taxa with non-specific locality data), which is in an Eocene/Miocene terrestrial phosphorite in the Quercy Phosphorites Formation of France. It is the type species of Necrosaurus.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
N. giganteus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1873Necrosaurus cayluxi Filhol

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Squamata()
—Anguimorpha(Fürbringer 1900)
familyNecrosauridaeHoffstetter 1943
genusNecrosaurusFilhol 1876
speciescayluxiFilhol 1873

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.

†Necrosaurus cayluxi Filhol 1873
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Diagnosis
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