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Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus
Taxonomy
Limnosaurus transsylvanicus was named by Nopcsa (1900) [Specimen is the lectotype.]. Its type specimen is BMNH B.3386, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Szentpéterfalva, Hateg Basin, which is in a Maastrichtian fluvial sandstone in the Sânpetru Formation of Romania.
It was recombined as Hecatasaurus transsyvanicus by Brown (1910); it was recombined as Orthomerus transsylvanicus by Nopcsa (1915), Kadić (1917), Huene (1927), Nagao (1936), Riabinin (1946), Lapparent (1948), Kuhn (1964), Dinca et al. (1971), Jurcsák (1982) and Brinkmann (1984); it was recombined as Orthomerus transylvanicus by Nopcsa (1915), Nopcsa (1923), Lapparent (1947), Jeletzky (1960), Lapparent (1967), Grigorescu (1984), Casanovas et al. (1987), Buffetaut (1992) and Grigorescu (1992); it was recombined as Telmatosaurus transylvanicus by Vremir and Codrea (2002); it was misspelled as Limnosaurus transylvanicus by Gilmore (1933), Mamulea (1953), Casanovas-Cladellas et al. (1986), Le Loeuff (1997), Powell (2003), Chiappe et al. (2003), Canudo et al. (2005), Lund and Gates (2006) and Coria (2011); it was recombined as Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus by Nopcsa (1903), Versluys (1910), Charig (1967), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Brinkmann (1988), Weishampel and Horner (1990), Buffetaut et al. (1991), Weishampel et al. (1991), Weishampel et al. (1993), Wellnhofer (1994), Le Loeuff and Buffetaut (1995), Casanovas-Cladellas et al. (1998), Godefroit et al. (1998), Weishampel et al. (1999), Casanovas et al. (1999), Grigorescu and Csiki (2000), Jagt et al. (2003), Grigorescu (2003), Horner et al. (2004), Grigorescu (2004), Grigorescu (2005), Bojar et al. (2005), Grigorescu and Csiki (2006), Grigorescu (2006), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2006), Dalla Vecchia (2006), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (2007), Gates et al. (2007), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (2007), Evans and Reisz (2007), Dalla Vecchia (2009), Pereda-Suberbiola et al. (2009), Prieto-Márquez (2010), Weishampel et al. (2010), Vremir (2010), Codrea et al. (2010), Prieto-Márquez and Norell (2010), Grigorescu (2010), Cruzado-Caballero et al. (2010), Prieto-Márquez (2010), Grigorescu (2010), Juárez Valieri et al. (2010), McDonald et al. (2010), Godefroit and Motchurova-Dekova (2010), McDonald et al. (2010), Prieto-Marquez and Salinas (2010), Prieto-Márquez and Wagner (2010), Prieto-Márquez (2011), Prieto-Márquez (2011), Ramírez-Velasco et al. (2012), Prieto-Márquez (2012), Zheng et al. (2013), Fernández (2013), Sellés et al. (2014), Dalla Vecchia (2014), Tsogtbaatar et al. (2014), Company et al. (2015), Ulansky (2015), Blanco et al. (2015), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2016), Cruzado-Caballero and Powell (2017), Fondevilla et al. (2018), Dalla Vecchia (2020) and Kobayashi et al. (2021).
It was recombined as Hecatasaurus transsyvanicus by Brown (1910); it was recombined as Orthomerus transsylvanicus by Nopcsa (1915), Kadić (1917), Huene (1927), Nagao (1936), Riabinin (1946), Lapparent (1948), Kuhn (1964), Dinca et al. (1971), Jurcsák (1982) and Brinkmann (1984); it was recombined as Orthomerus transylvanicus by Nopcsa (1915), Nopcsa (1923), Lapparent (1947), Jeletzky (1960), Lapparent (1967), Grigorescu (1984), Casanovas et al. (1987), Buffetaut (1992) and Grigorescu (1992); it was recombined as Telmatosaurus transylvanicus by Vremir and Codrea (2002); it was misspelled as Limnosaurus transylvanicus by Gilmore (1933), Mamulea (1953), Casanovas-Cladellas et al. (1986), Le Loeuff (1997), Powell (2003), Chiappe et al. (2003), Canudo et al. (2005), Lund and Gates (2006) and Coria (2011); it was recombined as Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus by Nopcsa (1903), Versluys (1910), Charig (1967), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Brinkmann (1988), Weishampel and Horner (1990), Buffetaut et al. (1991), Weishampel et al. (1991), Weishampel et al. (1993), Wellnhofer (1994), Le Loeuff and Buffetaut (1995), Casanovas-Cladellas et al. (1998), Godefroit et al. (1998), Weishampel et al. (1999), Casanovas et al. (1999), Grigorescu and Csiki (2000), Jagt et al. (2003), Grigorescu (2003), Horner et al. (2004), Grigorescu (2004), Grigorescu (2005), Bojar et al. (2005), Grigorescu and Csiki (2006), Grigorescu (2006), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2006), Dalla Vecchia (2006), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (2007), Gates et al. (2007), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (2007), Evans and Reisz (2007), Dalla Vecchia (2009), Pereda-Suberbiola et al. (2009), Prieto-Márquez (2010), Weishampel et al. (2010), Vremir (2010), Codrea et al. (2010), Prieto-Márquez and Norell (2010), Grigorescu (2010), Cruzado-Caballero et al. (2010), Prieto-Márquez (2010), Grigorescu (2010), Juárez Valieri et al. (2010), McDonald et al. (2010), Godefroit and Motchurova-Dekova (2010), McDonald et al. (2010), Prieto-Marquez and Salinas (2010), Prieto-Márquez and Wagner (2010), Prieto-Márquez (2011), Prieto-Márquez (2011), Ramírez-Velasco et al. (2012), Prieto-Márquez (2012), Zheng et al. (2013), Fernández (2013), Sellés et al. (2014), Dalla Vecchia (2014), Tsogtbaatar et al. (2014), Company et al. (2015), Ulansky (2015), Blanco et al. (2015), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2016), Cruzado-Caballero and Powell (2017), Fondevilla et al. (2018), Dalla Vecchia (2020) and Kobayashi et al. (2021).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1900 | Limnosaurus transsylvanicus Nopcsa p. 559 figs. Pl. 1-6 |
1901 | Limnosaurus transsylvanicus Nopcsa p. 212 |
1903 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Nopcsa pp. 94-95 |
1910 | Hecatasaurus transsyvanicus Brown p. 273 |
1910 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Versluys p. 225 |
1915 | Orthomerus transsylvanicus Nopcsa p. 8 |
1915 | Orthomerus transylvanicus Nopcsa p. 386 |
1917 | Orthomerus transsylvanicus Kadić p. 618 |
1923 | Orthomerus transylvanicus Nopcsa p. 105 |
1927 | Orthomerus transsylvanicus Huene p. 267 |
1933 | Limnosaurus transylvanicus Gilmore p. 53 |
1936 | Orthomerus transsylvanicus Nagao p. 185 |
1946 | Orthomerus transsylvanicus Riabinin p. 66 |
1947 | Orthomerus transylvanicus Lapparent p. 32 |
1948 | Orthomerus transsylvanicus Lapparent p. 1186 |
1953 | Orthomerus transilvanicus Mamulea p. 248 |
1960 | Orthomerus transylvanicus Jeletzky p. 34 |
1964 | Orthomerus transsylvanicus Kuhn p. 24 |
1967 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Charig p. 716 |
1967 | Orthomerus transylvanicus Lapparent p. 11 |
1971 | Orthomerus transsylvanicus Dinca et al. p. 89 |
1982 | Orthomerus transsylvanicus Jurcsák p. 182 |
1983 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44 |
1984 | Orthomerus transsylvanicus Brinkmann p. 297 |
1984 | Orthomerus transylvanicus Grigorescu p. 111 |
1986 | Orthomerus transylvanicus Casanovas-Cladellas et al. p. 108 |
1987 | Orthomerus transylvanicus Casanovas et al. p. 102 |
1988 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Brinkmann p. 74 |
1990 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Weishampel and Horner p. 556 |
1991 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Buffetaut et al. p. 34 |
1991 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Weishampel et al. p. 203 figs. 8-9 |
1992 | Orthomerus transylvanicus Buffetaut p. 131 |
1992 | Orthomerus transylvanicus Grigorescu p. 156 |
1993 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Weishampel et al. p. 362 figs. 1-6 |
1994 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Wellnhofer p. 229 |
1995 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Le Loeuff and Buffetaut p. 183 |
1997 | Telmatosaurus transylvanicus Le Loeuff p. 454 |
1998 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Casanovas-Cladellas et al. p. 16 |
1998 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Godefroit et al. p. 50 |
1999 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Casanovas et al. p. 351 |
1999 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Weishampel et al. p. 358 |
2000 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Grigorescu and Csiki p. 33 |
2002 | Telmatosaurus transylvanicus Vremir and Codrea p. 97 |
2003 | Telmatosaurus transylvanicus Chiappe et al. p. 100 |
2003 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Grigorescu p. 100 |
2003 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Jagt et al. p. 73 |
2003 | Orthomerus transylvanicus Powell p. 75 |
2004 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Grigorescu p. 109 |
2004 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Horner et al. p. 439 |
2005 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Bojar et al. p. 208 |
2005 | Telmatosaurus transsilvanicus Canudo et al. p. 11 |
2005 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Grigorescu p. 197 |
2006 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Dalla Vecchia pp. 1-3 |
2006 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Grigorescu p. 18R |
2006 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Grigorescu and Csiki p. 20 |
2006 | Telmatosaurus transylvanicus Lund and Gates p. 274 |
2006 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 936 |
2007 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Evans and Reisz p. 385 |
2007 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Gates et al. p. 925 |
2007 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Pereda Suberbiola and Galton p. 91 |
2009 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Dalla Vecchia pp. 3-4 |
2009 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Pereda-Suberbiola et al. p. 560 |
2010 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Codrea et al. p. 597 |
2010 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Cruzado-Caballero et al. p. 154 |
2010 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Godefroit and Motchurova-Dekova p. 165 |
2010 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Grigorescu p. 90 |
2010 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Juárez Valieri et al. p. 220 |
2010 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus McDonald et al. p. 33 fig. 39 |
2010 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus McDonald et al. p. 808 fig. 10 |
2010 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Prieto-Marquez and Salinas p. 835 fig. 20 |
2010 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Prieto-Márquez p. 5 fig. 2 |
2010 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Prieto-Márquez and Norell p. 6 |
2010 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Prieto-Márquez and Wagner p. 1241 |
2010 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Vremir p. 654 |
2010 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Weishampel et al. p. 429 |
2011 | Telmatosaurus transilvanicus Coria p. R9 |
2011 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Prieto-Márquez p. 63 |
2012 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Prieto-Márquez p. 529 |
2012 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 386 |
2013 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Fernández p. 92 |
2013 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Zheng et al. |
2014 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Dalla Vecchia p. 270 |
2014 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Sellés et al. p. 725 |
2014 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Tsogtbaatar et al. p. 116 |
2015 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Blanco et al. p. 447 |
2015 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Company et al. p. 72 |
2015 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Ulansky p. 5 |
2016 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 20 |
2017 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Cruzado-Caballero and Powell p. 12 fig. 13 |
2018 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Fondevilla et al. p. 1 |
2020 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Dalla Vecchia p. 584 |
2021 | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Kobayashi et al. p. 1 |
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†Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Nopcsa 1900
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Diagnosis
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Measurements
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References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875 |
Age range: Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 70.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (8 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) | Orthomerus transylvanicus (48864) | |
Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Romania (Hunedoara) | Dinosauria indet. (13334) Limnosaurus transsylvanicus (type locality: 59410) Telmatosaurus sp. (96689) Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus (10760) | |
Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Romania (Alba) | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus (80858 80859) | |
Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Romania (Hunedoara) | Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus (219186) |