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Camarasaurus lewisi

Reptilia - Camarasauridae

Taxonomy
Cathetosaurus lewisi was named by Jensen (1988) [type specimen incorrectly listed as 9407]. Its type specimen is BYU 9047, a partial skeleton, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Dominguez/Jones Quarry, which is in a Kimmeridgian wet floodplain mudstone in the Morrison Formation of Colorado.

It was recombined as Camarasaurus lewisi by Miller et al. (1992), McIntosh et al. (1996), Wilson and Sereno (1998), Wedel et al. (2000), Upchurch et al. (2004), Ikejiri (2005), Apesteguía (2005), Tidwell et al. (2005), Ikejiri et al. (2005), Mateus (2006), Chure et al. (2006), Läng and Goussard (2007), González Riga et al. (2009), Carballido et al. (2011), Taylor et al. (2011), Cerda et al. (2015), Tschopp et al. (2015), Park (2016), Tschopp et al. (2019), Woodruff et al. (2021) and Ren et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Cathetosaurus lewisi Jensen
1992Camarasaurus lewisi Miller et al. p. 43A
1996Camarasaurus lewisi McIntosh et al. p. 74
1998Camarasaurus lewisi Wilson and Sereno p. 20
2000Camarasaurus lewisi Wedel et al. p. 368
2004Camarasaurus lewisi Upchurch et al. p. 266
2005Camarasaurus lewisi Apesteguía p. 339
2005Camarasaurus lewisi Ikejiri p. 370
2005Camarasaurus lewisi Ikejiri et al. p. 155
2005Camarasaurus lewisi Tidwell et al. p. 181
2006Camarasaurus lewisi Chure et al. p. 236
2006Camarasaurus lewisi Mateus p. 231
2007Camarasaurus lewisi Läng and Goussard p. 556
2009Camarasaurus lewisi González Riga et al. p. 140
2011Camarasaurus lewisi Carballido et al. p. 623
2011Camarasaurus lewisi Taylor et al. p. 92
2015Camarasaurus lewisi Cerda et al. p. 14
2015Camarasaurus lewisi Tschopp et al. p. 2
2016Camarasaurus lewisi Park p. 29
2019Camarasaurus lewisi Tschopp et al. p. 12
2021Camarasaurus lewisi Ren et al. p. 1879
2021Camarasaurus lewisi Woodruff et al. p. 119

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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
RankNameAuthor
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Saurischia()
Sauropoda()
Gravisauria
Eusauropoda
Neosauropoda
Macronaria
Camarasauromorpha
familyCamarasauridae
genusCamarasaurus
specieslewisi()

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.

Camarasaurus lewisi Jensen 1988
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Diagnosis
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