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Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis

Reptilia - Dryosauridae

Taxonomy
Valdosaurus nigeriensis was named by Galton and Taquet (1982). Its type specimen is MNHN GRD 332, a set of postcrania (femur), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Niveau des Innocents, Gadoufaoua, which is in an Aptian terrestrial horizon in the Elrhaz Formation of Niger.

It was recombined as Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis by Galton (2009), McDonald et al. (2010), Zheng et al. (2013), Verdú et al. (2015), Fuentes Vidarte et al. (2016), Fanti et al. (2016), Madzia et al. (2018), Dieudonné et al. (2020) and Verdú et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1982Valdosaurus nigeriensis Galton and Taquet pp. 153-154 figs. pl. 1:1-17
1983Valdosaurus nigeriensis Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1984Valdosaurus nigeriensis Molnar p. 154
1984Valdosaurus nigeriensis Taquet p. 82
1990Valdosaurus nigeriensis Sues and Norman p. 500
1992Valdosaurus nigeriensis Molnar p. 266
1997Valdosaurus nigeriensis Currie and Padian p. 369
1997Valdosaurus nigeriensis Ryan p. 197
2001Valdosaurus nigeriensis Naish and Martill p. 84
2002Valdosaurus nigeniensis Buchholz p. 22
2004Valdosaurus nigeriensis Norman p. 415
2007Valdosaurus nigeriensis Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. p. 10
2008Valdosaurus nigeriensis Butler et al. p. 8
2009Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Galton p. 239
2010Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis McDonald et al. p. 33 fig. 39
2013Valdosaurus nigeriensis Bertozzo et al. p. 119
2013Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Zheng et al.
2015Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Verdú et al. p. 256
2016Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Fanti et al. p. 267
2016Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Fuentes Vidarte et al. p. 440
2018Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Madzia et al. p. 968
2020Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Dieudonné et al.
2021Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Verdú et al. p. 4

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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()
Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Ornithischia()
Genasauria
Cerapoda
Ornithopoda()
Clypeodonta
Iguanodontia()
Dryomorpha
familyDryosauridae
genusElrhazosaurus
speciesnigeriensis()

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.

Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis Galton and Taquet 1982
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