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Gyposaurus

Reptilia - Anchisauridae

Taxonomy
Gyposaurus was named by Broom (1911). Its type is Gyposaurus capensis.

It was synonymized subjectively with Anchisaurus by Galton and Cluver (1976), Dong (1997); it was synonymized subjectively with Massospondylus by Cooper (1981); it was synonymized subjectively with Lufengosaurus by Evans and Milner (1989); it was considered a nomen dubium by Galton and Upchurch (2004).

It was assigned to Theropoda by Broom (1913); to Saurischia by Huene (1940); to Prosauropoda by Young (1941); to Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1939), Huene (1958), Simmons (1965); to Thecodontosauridae by Huene (1914), Haughton (1924), Nopcsa (1928), Haughton and Brink (1954), Romer (1956), Huene (1959), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Charig (1967); and to Anchisauridae by Van Hoepen (1920), Steel (1970), Galton (1973), Upchurch et al. (2007), Martínez (2009).

Species
G. sinensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1911Gyposaurus Broom pp. 293-294
1913Gyposaurus Broom p. 364
1914Gyposaurus Huene p. 13
1920Gyposaurus Van Hoepen p. 91
1924Gyposaurus Haughton
1928Gyposaurus Nopcsa p. 182
1939Gyposaurus Kuhn p. 63
1940Gryposaurus Huene p. 263
1941Gyposaurus Young p. 205
1954Gyposaurus Haughton and Brink p. 4
1956Gyposaurus Romer p. 617
1958Gyposaurus Huene p. 205
1959Gyposaurus Huene p. 120
1964Gyposaurus Tatarinov p. 541
1965Gyposaurus Simmons p. 60
1966Gryposaurus Romer p. 370
1967Gyposaurus Charig p. 712
1970Gyposaurus Steel p. 48
1973Gyposaurus Galton p. 248
2007Gyposaurus Upchurch et al. p. 62 fig. 3
2009Gyposaurus Martínez p. 162 fig. 22

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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()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Eusaurischia
—Sauropodomorpha(Huene 1932)
—Bagualosauria
—Plateosauria()
—Anchisauria
—Prosauropoda()
familyAnchisauridae
genusGyposaurus

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.

G. †Gyposaurus Broom 1911
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†Gyposaurus sinensis Young 1940
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialinfrao
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellinginfrao
Diet: herbivoreinfrao
Created: 2005-09-15 11:05:47
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:40:20
Source: infrao = infraorder, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Norman and Weishampel 1991

Age range: base of the Hettangian to the top of the Sinemurian or 201.30000 to 190.80000 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Jurassic201.4 - 174.7China (Guizhou) Anchisaurus sinensis (49780)
Hettangian201.3 - 199.3China (Yunnan) G. sinensis (49501 49503)
Sinemurian199.3 - 190.8China (Yunnan) G. sinensis (47081 49773 66926 72091 78993) Saurischia indet. (49776)