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Aralosaurus tuberiferus

Reptilia - Hadrosauridae

Taxonomy
Aralosaurus tuberiferus was named by Rozhdestvensky (1968). Its type specimen is PIN AN SSR 2229/1, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shakh-Shakh (lower), which is in a Santonian/Campanian fluvial-lacustrine claystone/sandstone in the Bostobe Formation of Kazakhstan.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Norman and Sues (2000).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1968Aralosaurus tuberiferus Rozhdestvensky
1975Aralosaurus tuberiferus Taquet p. 508
1977Aralosaurus tuberiferus Rozhdestvensky p. 113
1981Aralosaurus tuberiferus Maryanska and Osmólska p. 8
1983Aralosaurus tuberiferus Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1990Aralosaurus tuberiferus Weishampel and Horner p. 556
1997Aralosaurus tuberiferus Ryan p. 443
2004Aralosaurus tuberiferus Godefroit et al. p. 141
2004Aralosaurus tuberiferus Horner et al. p. 439
2006Aralosaurus tuberiferus Lund and Gates p. 270
2007Aralosaurus tuberiferus Evans and Reisz p. 387 fig. 9
2007Aralosaurus tubiferus Gates et al. p. 926 fig. 10
2008Aralosaurus tuberiferus Godefroit et al. p. 68
2009Aralosaurus tuberiferus Dalla Vecchia p. 5
2010Aralosaurus tuberiferus Juárez Valieri et al. p. 223
2010Aralosaurus tuberiferus Prieto-Marquez and Salinas p. 835 fig. 20
2010Aralosaurus tuberiferus Prieto-Márquez p. 5 fig. 2
2010Aralosaurus tuberiferus Prieto-Márquez and Wagner p. 1243
2012Aralosaurus tuberiferus Averianov and Alifanov p. 518
2012Aralosaurus tuberiferus Averianov et al. p. 140
2012Aralosaurus tuberiferus Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 392
2013Aralosaurus tuberiferus Bell and Brink p. 266
2013Aralosaurus tuberiferus Cruzado-Caballero et al.
2014Aralosaurus tuberiferus Bolotsky et al. p. 327
2014Aralosaurus tuberiferus Gates et al. p. 158
2015Aralosaurus tuberiferus Ohashi et al. p. 4
2016Aralosaurus tuberiferus Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 6
2017Aralosaurus tuberiferus Cruzado-Caballero and Powell p. 12 fig. 13
2018Aralosaurus tuberiferus Fondevilla et al. p. 8
2019Aralosaurus tuberiferus Takasaki et al. p. 5

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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
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
RankNameAuthor
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Ornithischia()
Genasauria
Cerapoda
Ornithopoda()
Clypeodonta
Iguanodontia()
Dryomorpha
Styracosterna
Hadrosauriformes
Hadrosauroidea()
familyHadrosauridae
subfamilyLambeosaurinae
genusAralosaurus
speciestuberiferus

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.

Aralosaurus tuberiferus Rozhdestvensky 1968
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: gregariouso
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: herbivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:40:05
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:40:05
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983

Age range: base of the Santonian to the top of the Early/Lower Campanian or 86.30000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian86.3 - 70.6Kazakhstan (Qyzylorda) Hadrosauridae indet. (type locality: 53134)