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Anhanguera blittersdorffi

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Anhanguera blittersdorffi was named by Campos and Kellner (1985). Its type specimen is Blittersdorff collection, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Chapada do Araripe [Romualdo Fm.] (general), which is in an Aptian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal shale in the Romualdo Formation of Brazil.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1985Anhanguera blittersdorffi Campos and Kellner p. 460 figs. 1-2, Pl. 3
2000Anhanguera blittersdorffi Kellner and Tomida
2003Anhanguera blittersdorffi Unwin p. 145
2014Anhanguera blittersdorffi Andres et al.
2014Anhanguera blittersdorffi Headden and Campos
2014Anhanguera blittersdorffi Vila Nova et al.

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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
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—PterosauromorphaPadian 1997
—Pterosauria(Kaup 1834)
suborderPterodactyloideaPlieninger 1901
—Pteranodontia()
superfamilyOrnithocheiroideaSeeley 1870
genusAnhanguera
speciesblittersdorffi

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.

†Anhanguera blittersdorffi Campos and Kellner 1985
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available