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Niobrarasaurus coleii

Reptilia - Nodosauridae

Taxonomy
Hierosaurus coleii was named by Mehl (1936). Its type specimen is FHSM VP-14855 (= MU 650 VP), a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is tributary of Smoky Hill River, which is in a Coniacian marine chalk in the Niobrara Formation of Kansas. It was considered monophyletic by Vickaryous et al. (2004).

It was recombined as Niobrarasaurus coleii by Carpenter et al. (1995), Ford (2000), Carpenter (2001), Ford and Kirkland (2001), Vickaryous et al. (2004), Carpenter and Everhart (2007), Osi and Makádi (2009), Loewen et al. (2013), Han et al. (2014) and Galton (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1936Hierosaurus coleii Mehl p. 2
1995Niobrarasaurus coleii Carpenter et al. p. 276
1996Hierosaurus coleii Coombs, Jr. and Deméré p. 319
2000Niobrarasaurus coleii Ford p. 175
2001Niobrarasaurus coleii Carpenter p. 457
2001Niobrarasaurus coleii Ford and Kirkland p. 255
2003Niobrarasaurus colei Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola p. 161
2004Niobrarasaurus coleii Vickaryous et al. p. 367
2007Niobrarasaurus coleii Carpenter and Everhart p. 1
2009Niobrarasaurus coleii Osi and Makádi p. 236
2013Niobrarasaurus coleii Loewen et al. p. 447
2014Niobrarasaurus coleii Han et al. p. 12 fig. 7
2019Niobrarasaurus coleii Galton p. 212

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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()
Ornithischia()
Genasauria
Thyreophora()
Ankylosauria()
familyNodosauridae
genusNiobrarasaurus
speciescoleii()

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.

Niobrarasaurus coleii Mehl 1936
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available