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Mussaurus patagonicus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Mussaurus patagonicus was named by Bonaparte and Vince (1979). Its type specimen is PVL 4068, a skeleton (Articulated skeleton of a post-hatchling individual), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Laguna La Colorada (PVL), which is in a Sinemurian pond siltstone in the Laguna Colorada Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Mussaurus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1979Mussaurus patagonicus Bonaparte p. 222
1979Mussaurus patagonicus Bonaparte and Vince p. 175 figs. 1-4
1981Mussaurus patagonicus Borgomanero and Leonardi p. 220
1995Mussaurus patagonicus Bonaparte p. 83
1996Mussaurus patagonicus Novas p. 676
1997Mussaurus patagonicus Novas p. 681
1999Mussaurus patagonicus Salgado p. 210
2004Mussaurus patagonicus Galton and Upchurch p. 235
2007Mussaurus patagonicus Barrett et al. p. 321
2007Mussaurus patagonicus Pol and Powell
2007Mussaurus patagonicus Upchurch et al. p. 76
2010Mussaurus patagonicus Langer et al. p. 70
2010Mussaurus patagonicus Reisz et al. p. 1664
2011Mussaurus patagonicus Apaldetti et al. p. 1
2012Mussaurus patagonicus Otero and Pol p. R34
2013Mussaurus patagonicus Cerda et al. p. 110
2013Mussaurus patagonicus Otero and Pol
2014Mussaurus patagonicus Cerda et al. p. 7
2016Mussaurus patagonicus Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain p. 19 fig. 8
2019Mussaurus patagonicus Veiga et al. p. 13
2020Mussaurus patagonicus Moro et al.
2021Mussaurus patagonicus Müller and Garcia p. 5
2021Mussaurus patagonicus Pol et al. p. 1

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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
—Sauropodiformes
genusMussaurus
speciespatagonicus

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.

†Mussaurus patagonicus Bonaparte and Vince 1979
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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: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Sinemurian or 199.50000 to 192.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sinemurian199.5 - 192.9Argentina (Santa Cruz) Mussaurus patagonicus (type locality: 52015 179278)