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Rhabdodon priscus

Reptilia - Rhabdodontidae

Taxonomy

Rabdodon priscum was named by Matheron (1869). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Tunnel de la Nerthe, Fuveau, which is in a Maastrichtian lacustrine marl in France.

It was recombined as Rhabdodon priscum by Gervais (1869), Matheron (1869), Nopcsa (1900), Nopcsa (1901), Gautier (1901), Nopcsa (1915), Nopcsa (1915), Kadić (1917), Nopcsa (1923), Huene (1927), Lapparent (1947), Lapparent and Aguirre (1956), Lapparent et al. (1957), Lapparent and Aguirre (1957), Jeletzky (1960), Bataller (1960), Lapparent (1967), Dinca et al. (1971), Taquet (1975), Dughi and Sirugue (1976), Llompart (1979), Clottes and Raynaud (1983), Grigorescu (1984), Sanz (1984), Brinkmann (1984), Penner (1985), Villatte et al. (1986), Ginsburg (1986), Casanovas-Cladellas et al. (1986), Casanovas et al. (1987), Casanovas Cladellas (1992), Grigorescu (1992), Buffetaut et al. (1993), Powell (2003) and Grigorescu (2010); it was recombined as Mochlodon priscus by Charig (1967); it was synonymized subjectively with Mochlodon suessi by Weishampel and Weishampel (1983); it was recombined as Rhabdodon priscus by Depéret (1900), Nopcsa (1902), Lapparent (1948), Kuhn (1964), Jurcsák (1982), Brinkmann (1988), Cousin et al. (1989), Norman and Weishampel (1990), Buffetaut et al. (1991), Weishampel et al. (1991), Buffetaut (1992), Le Loeuff and Buffetaut (1995), Le Loeuff et al. (1995), Le Loeuff (1997), Currie and Padian (1997), Le Loeuff (1998), Pincemaille (1999), Pincemaille-Quillevere (2000), Laurent et al. (2001), Vremir and Codrea (2002), Grigorescu (2003), Weishampel et al. (2003), Norman (2004), Grigorescu (2004), Buffetaut (2005), Pereda-Suberbiola et al. (2006), Torcida Fernández-Baldor (2006), Sachs and Hornung (2006), Suñer et al. (2008), Butler et al. (2008), Dieudonné et al. (2016), Godefroit et al. (2017), Bell et al. (2018), Bell et al. (2019), Párraga and Prieto-Márquez (2019), Dieudonné et al. (2020) and Dieudonné et al. (2020).

Synonyms

Ornithomerus gracilis was named by Seeley (1881). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Muthmannsdorf, which is in a Campanian estuary/bay coal/sandstone in the Grünbach Formation of Austria.

It was synonymized subjectively with Rhabdodon priscum by Nopcsa (1923); it was misspelled as Orthomerus gracilis by Huene (1927) and Kuhn (1964); it was synonymized subjectively with Rhabdodon priscus by Brinkmann (1988), Norman and Weishampel (1990) and Norman (2004).
Oligosaurus adelus was named by Seeley (1881). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Muthmannsdorf, which is in a Campanian estuary/bay coal/sandstone in the Grünbach Formation of Austria. It is the type species of Oligosaurus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Rhabdodon priscus by Brinkmann (1988), Norman and Weishampel (1990) and Norman (2004).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1869	Rhabdodon priscum Gervais p. 215
1869	Rabdodon priscum Matheron
1869	Rhabdodon priscum Matheron
1869	Rabdodon priscum Matheron p. 375
1881	Ornithomerus gracilis Seeley p. 671
1881	Oligosaurus adelus Seeley p. 678
1882	Oligosaurus adelus Sauvage p. 41
1882	Ornithomerus gracilis Sauvage p. 41
1898	Rabdodon priscum Sauvage p. 446
1900	Rhabdodon priscus Depéret p. 637
1900	Rhabdodon priscum Nopcsa p. 576
1901	Rhabdodon priscum Gautier p. 113
1901	Rhabdodon priscum Nopcsa p. 209
1901	Oligosaurus adelus Nopcsa p. 214
1902	Rhabdodon priscus Nopcsa p. 151
1915	Rhabdodon priscum Nopcsa p. 9
1917	Rhabdodon priscum Kadić p. 618
1923	Rhabdodon priscum Nopcsa p. 105
1927	Orthomerus gracilis Huene p. 267
1927	Rhabdodon priscum Huene p. 267
1947	Rhabdodon priscum Lapparent p. 28
1948	Rhabdodon priscus Lapparent p. 1186
1956	Rhabdodon priscum Lapparent and Aguirre p. 380
1957	Rhabdodon priscum Lapparent and Aguirre p. 5
1957	Rhabdodon priscum Lapparent et al. p. 62
1960	Rhabdodon priscum Bataller p. 160
1960	Rhabdodon priscum Jeletzky p. 34
1964	Ornithomerus gracilis Kuhn p. 12
1964	Rhabdodon priscus Kuhn p. 12
1964	Oligosaurus adelus Kuhn p. 44
1967	Mochlodon priscus Charig p. 716
1967	Rhabdodon priscum Lapparent p. 11
1971	Rhabdodon priscum Dinca et al. p. 89
1975	Rhabdodon priscum Taquet p. 507
1976	Rhabdodon priscum Dughi and Sirugue p. 10
1979	Rhabdodon priscum Llompart p. 336
1982	Rhabdodon priscus Jurcsák p. 182
1983	Rhabdodon priscum Clottes and Raynaud p. 11
1984	Rhabdodon priscum Brinkmann p. 297
1984	Rhabdodon priscum Grigorescu p. 111
1984	Rhabdodon priscum Sanz p. 503
1985	Rhabdodon priscum Penner p. 668
1986	Rhabdodon priscum Casanovas-Cladellas et al. p. 101
1986	Rhabdodon priscum Ginsburg p. 144
1986	Rhabdodon priscum Villatte et al. p. 93
1987	Rhabdodon priscum Casanovas et al. p. 102
1988	Rhabdodon priscus Brinkmann pp. 34-35
1989	Rhabdodon priscus Cousin et al. p. 165
1990	Rhabdodon priscus Norman and Weishampel p. 531
1991	Rhabdodon priscus Buffetaut et al. p. 34
1991	Rhabdodon priscus Weishampel et al. pp. 205-206 figs. 10-12
1992	Rhabdodon priscus Buffetaut pp. 130, 132
1992	Rhabdodon priscum Casanovas Cladellas p. 141
1992	Rhabdodon priscum Grigorescu p. 156
1993	Rhabdodon priscum Buffetaut et al. p. 170
1995	Rhabdodon priscus Le Loeuff et al. p. 157
1997	Rhabdodon priscus Currie and Padian p. 369
1997	Rhabdodon priscus Le Loeuff p. 454
1998	Rhabdodon priscus Le Loeuff p. 56
1999	Rhabdodon priscus Pincemaille p. 91
2000	Rhabdodon priscus Pincemaille-Quillevere p. 61
2001	Rhabdodon priscus Laurent et al. p. 660
2002	Rhabdodon priscus Vremir and Codrea p. 97
2003	Rhabdodon priscus Grigorescu p. 100
2003	Rhabdodon priscum Powell p. 74
2003	Rhabdodon priscus Weishampel et al. p. 66
2004	Rhabdodon priscus Grigorescu p. 109
2004	Rhabdodon priscus Norman p. 414
2005	Rhabdodon priscus Buffetaut p. 44
2006	Rhabdodon priscus Pereda-Suberbiola et al. p. 101
2006	Rhabdodon priscus Sachs and Hornung pp. 423-424
2006	Rhabdodon priscus Torcida Fernández-Baldor p. 122
2008	Rhabdodon priscus Butler et al. p. 8
2008	Rhabdodon priscus Suñer et al. p. 401
2010	Rhabdodon priscum Grigorescu p. 278
2016	Rhabdodon priscus Dieudonné et al. p. 2
2017	Rhabdodon priscus Godefroit et al. p. 1
2018	Rhabdodon priscus Bell et al. p. 12
2019	Rhabdodon priscus Bell et al. p. 6
2019	Rhabdodon priscus Párraga and Prieto-Márquez p. 251
2020	Rhabdodon priscus Dieudonné et al.
2020	Rhabdodon priscus Dieudonné et al. p. 404

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida

Rank	Name	Author
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Ornithischia	()
—	Genasauria
—	Cerapoda
—	Ornithopoda	()
—	Clypeodonta
—	Iguanodontia	()
—	Rhabdodontomorpha
family	Rhabdodontidae
genus	Rhabdodon	()
species	priscus	()

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.

†Rhabdodon priscus Matheron 1869

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Invalid names: Oligosaurus adelus Seeley 1881 [synonym], Ornithomerus gracilis Seeley 1881 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available