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Grallator maximus

Reptilia - Grallatoridae

Taxonomy
Grallator maximus was named by Lapparent and Montenat (1967). It is a trace fossil. Its type locality is L'Anse de la République tracksite, F6, which is in a Rhaetian estuary/bay sandstone/claystone in France.

It was synonymized subjectively with Grallator minusculus by Demathieu (2003).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1967Grallator maximus Lapparent and Montenat pp. 20-21 fig. 11
1968Grallator maximus Courel et al. p. 277
1971Grallator maximus Haubold p. 67
1972Grallator maximus Demathieu and Haubold p. 806
1974Grallator maximus Haubold p. 119
1976Grallator maximus Michalík et al. p. 304
1978Grallator maximus Rioult p. 26
1986Grallator maximus Zhen et al. p. 3
1994Grallator maximus Vignaud et al. p. 497
2000Grallator maximus Gand et al. p. 617
2005Grallator maximus Clark et al. p. 97
2017Grallator maximus Xing et al. p. 120
2019Grallator maximus Moreau et al. p. 349
2021Grallator maximus Leonardi and Carvalho p. 111

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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
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Theropoda()
familyGrallatoridae
genusGrallator
speciesmaximus

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.

Grallator maximus Lapparent and Montenat 1967
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available