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Erectopus sauvagei

Osteichthyes - Metriacanthosauridae

Taxonomy
Erectopus sauvagei was named by Huene (1932).

It was synonymized subjectively with Erectopus superbus by Paul (1988), Allain (2005).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1932Erectopus sauvagei Huene p. 239
1934Erectopus sauvagei Stromer p. 15
1936Erectopus sauvagei Stromer p. 81
1939Erectopus sauvagei Kuhn p. 76
1970Erectopus sauvagei Steel p. 32
1977Erectopus sauvagei Taquet p. 326
1991Erectopus sauvagei Buffetaut et al. p. 31
1991Erectopus sauvagei Le Loeuff p. 105
2004Erectopus sauvagei Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 73

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
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()
—Saurischia()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
superfamilyAllosauroidea
familyMetriacanthosauridae
genusErectopus
speciessauvagei

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.

†Erectopus sauvagei Huene 1932
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available