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Glacialisaurus hammeri

Reptilia - Massospondylidae

Taxonomy
Glacialisaurus hammeri was named by Smith and Pol (2007). Its type specimen is FMNH PR1823, a set of limb elements, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Mt. Kirkpatrick, Beardmore Glacier, which is in a Sinemurian/Pliensbachian fluvial siltstone in the Hanson Formation of Antarctica. It is the type species of Glacialisaurus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2007Glacialisaurus hammeri Smith and Pol p. 659 figs. 2-6
2010Glacialisaurus hammeri Langer et al. p. 90
2011Glacialisaurus hammeri Apaldetti et al. p. 4
2013Glacialisaurus hammeri Coria et al. p. 186

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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
genusGlacialisaurus
specieshammeri

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.

†Glacialisaurus hammeri Smith and Pol 2007
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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: base of the Sinemurian to the top of the Pliensbachian or 199.50000 to 184.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sinemurian - Pliensbachian199.5 - 184.2Antarctica Prosauropoda indet. (type locality: 47135)