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Lophostropheus airelensis

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Liliensternus airelensis was named by Cuny and Galton (1993). Its type specimen is Caen University unnumbered, a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Airel Quarry, which is in a Rhaetian/Hettangian marginal marine claystone/limestone in the Moon-Airel Formation of France. It is the type species of Lophostropheus.

It was recombined as Lophostropheus airelensis by Ezcurra and Cuny (2007), Langer et al. (2010), Delsate and Ezcurra (2014), Nesbitt and Ezcurra (2015), Martill et al. (2016), Moreau et al. (2018), Zahner and Brinkmann (2019) and Moreau et al. (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Liliensternus airelensis Cuny and Galton pp. 281-282 figs. 2-12
1997Liliensternus airelensis Buffetaut p. 213
2000Liliensternus airelensis Rauhut and Hungerbühler
2003Liliensternus airelensis Godefroit and Knoll p. 9
2003Liliensternus airelensis Rauhut p. 15
2004Liliensternus airelensis Carrano and Sampson p. 539
2005Liliensternus airelensis Yates p. 117
2006Liliensternus airelensis Lucas et al. p. 91
2007Lophostropheus airelensis Ezcurra and Cuny p. 79
2010Lophostropheus airelensis Langer et al. p. 71
2014Lophostropheus airelensis Delsate and Ezcurra p. 175
2015Lophostropheus airelensis Nesbitt and Ezcurra p. 520
2016Lophostropheus airelensis Martill et al. p. 10
2018Lophostropheus airelensis Moreau et al. p. 38
2019Lophostropheus airelensis Moreau et al. p. 349
2019Lophostropheus airelensis Zahner and Brinkmann p. 1146

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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
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Theropoda()
Neotheropoda
superfamilyCoelophysoidea
genusLophostropheus
speciesairelensis()

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.

Lophostropheus airelensis Cuny and Galton 1993
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available