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Rhoetosaurus brownei

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Rhoetosaurus brownei was named by Longman (1926). Its type specimen is QM F1695, a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Eurombah Creek, Durham Downs, which is in an Oxfordian floodplain sandstone/ironstone in the Walloon Coal Measures Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Rhoetosaurus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1926Rhoetosaurus brownei Longman p. 185 figs. 28-32
1927Rhoetosaurus brownei Huene p. 446
1929Rhoetosaurus brownei Longman p. 249
1939Rhoetosaurus brownei Kuhn p. 86
1946Rhaetosaurus brownei Bryan and Jones p. 58
1948Rhoetosaurus brownei Cabrera p. 38
1964Rhoetosaurus brownei Tatarinov p. 544
1966Rhoetosaurus brownei Bartholomai p. 150
1966Rhaetosaurus brownei Hill et al. p. j.30
1967Rhoetosaurus brownei Charig p. 713
1970Rhoetosaurus brownei Steel p. 66
1970Rhoetosaurus brownei Swinton p. 160
1974Rhaetosaurus brownei Gould p. 35
1979Rhoetosaurus brownei Jain et al. p. 204
1980Rhoetosaurus brownei Molnar p. 50
1981Rhoetosaurus brownei Coombs, Jr. and Molnar p. 358
1982Rhoetosaurus brownei Molnar p. 617
1986Rhoetosaurus brownei Bonaparte p. 367
1990Rhoetosaurus brownei McIntosh p. 380
1991Rhoetosaurus brownei Molnar p. 645
1996Rhoetosaurus brownei Molnar p. 645
1996Rhoetosaurus brownei Rich p. 715
2002Rhoetosaurus brownei Wilson p. 249
2004Rhoetosaurus brownei Upchurch et al. p. 261
2006Rhoetosaurus brownei Scanlon p. 276
2007Rhoetosaurus brownei Molnar and Wiffen p. 508
2021Rhoetosaurus brownei Frauenfelder et al. p. 354
2021Rhoetosaurus brownei Holwerda et al. p. 576
2023Rhoetosaurus brownei Poropat et al. p. 160

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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()
—Saurischia()
—Sauropoda()
—Gravisauria
—Eusauropoda
genusRhoetosaurus
speciesbrownei

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.

†Rhoetosaurus brownei Longman 1926
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteinfrao
Entire body: yesinfrao
Adult length: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult width: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult height: 10 to < 100infrao
Thickness: thickinfrao
Architecture: compact or denseinfrao
Form: sphericalinfrao
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partsinfrao
Grouping: gregariousinfrao
Environment: terrestrialinfrao
Locomotion: actively mobileinfrao
Life habit: ground dwellinginfrao
Diet: herbivoreinfrao
Reproduction: oviparousinfrao
Dispersal: direct/internalinfrao
Dispersal 2: mobileinfrao
Created: 2004-12-14 12:49:10
Modified: 2004-12-14 14:49:10
Source: infrao = infraorder
Reference: Marsh 1875

Age range: Middle Oxfordian or 161.50000 to 154.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Australia (Queensland) Rhoetosaurus brownei (type locality: 39235)