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Coloradisaurus brevis

Reptilia - Massospondylidae

Taxonomy
Coloradia brevis was named by Bonaparte (1978). Its type specimen is PVL 3967, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is E of Cerro Rajado, which is in a Norian fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic in the Los Colorados Formation of Argentina.

It was recombined as Coloradisaurus brevis by Lambert (1983), Bonaparte (1984), Novas (1997), Galton and Upchurch (2004), Upchurch et al. (2007), Barrett et al. (2007), Yates (2010), Langer et al. (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Ezcurra and Apaldetti (2012), Apaldetti et al. (2013), Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain (2016) and Müller and Garcia (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1978Coloradia brevis Bonaparte p. 328 figs. 1-2
1979Coloradia brevis Bonaparte p. 222
1983Coloradisaurus brevis Lambert
1984Coloradisaurus brevis Bonaparte p. 130
1984Coloradia brevis Olsen and Galton p. 93
1997Coloradisaurus brevis Novas p. 681
2004Coloradisaurus brevis Galton and Upchurch p. 234
2007Coloradisaurus brevis Barrett et al. p. 321
2007Coloradisaurus brevis Upchurch et al. p. 76
2010Coloradia brevis García et al. p. 422
2010Coloradisaurus brevis Langer et al. p. 70
2010Coloradisaurus brevis Yates p. 746
2011Coloradisaurus brevis Apaldetti et al. p. 1
2012Coloradisaurus brevis Ezcurra and Apaldetti p. 162
2013Coloradisaurus brevis Apaldetti et al.
2016Coloradisaurus brevis Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain p. 19 fig. 8
2021Coloradisaurus brevis Müller and Garcia p. 4

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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()
RankNameAuthor
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Saurischia()
Eusaurischia
Sauropodomorpha(Huene 1932)
Massopoda
familyMassospondylidae
genusColoradisaurus
speciesbrevis()

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.

Coloradisaurus brevis Bonaparte 1978
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Norian or 228.00000 to 208.50000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian228.0 - 208.5Argentina (La Rioja) Coloradia brevis (type locality: 52014) Coloradisaurus brevis (52032)