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Oplosaurus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Oplosaurus was named by Gervais (1852). Its type is Oplosaurus armatus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Cetiosaurus by Dollo (1889); it was synonymized subjectively with Pelorosaurus by Lydekker (1889), Lydekker (1890), Huene (1909), Romer (1956), Romer (1966), Steel (1970) and McIntosh (1990); it was synonymized subjectively with Ornithopsis by Zittel (1890); it was considered a nomen dubium by Naish and Martill (2001).

It was assigned to Mosasauridae by Gervais (1852), Gervais (1853) and Gervais (1859); to Sauropoda by Winkler (1893); to Stegosauridae by Nopcsa (1901); to Morosauridae by von Zittel (1911); to Sauropoda by Upchurch et al. (2004); to Macronaria by Naish and Martill (2007); and to Camarasauridae by Sánchez-Hernández et al. (2007).

Species
O. armatus (type species)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1852Oplosaurus Gervais p. 263
1853Oplosaurus Gervais p. 471
1859Oplosaurus Gervais p. 464
1893Oplosaurus Winkler p. 101
1901Hoplosaurus Nopcsa p. 214
1911Oplosaurus von Zittel p. 287
2004Oplosaurus Upchurch et al. p. 261
2007Oplosaurus Naish and Martill p. 499
2007Oplosaurus Sánchez-Hernández et al. p. 199

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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
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Saurischia()
Sauropoda()
genusOplosaurus

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.

G. †Oplosaurus Gervais 1852
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Oplosaurus armatus Gervais 1859
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available