Anisodontosaurus

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Anisodontosaurus
Temporal range: Middle Triassic, 247.2–242.0 Ma
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: †Allokotosauria
Order: †Trilophosauria
Family: †Trilophosauridae (?)
Genus: †Anisodontosaurus
Welles, 1947
Species:
†A. greeri
Binomial name
†Anisodontosaurus greeri
Welles, 1947

Anisodontosaurus is an extinct genus of trilophosaurid allokotosaur known from the Middle Triassic Moenkopi Formation of Arizona.[1] The type species, A. greeri, was named and described by Samuel Paul Welles in 1947,[1] and its taxonomic placement was largely unknown (placed within the Eosuchia by Welles in 1947)[1] until the holotype was reassessed in 1988, when it was recovered as a lepidosauromorph or a trilophosaurid.[2] The holotype, a jaw catalogued as UCMP V3922, was discovered in 1940 and was described seven years later.[1] Apart from the type specimen, Anidosontosaurus is known from the referred specimen UCMP 37815, a right ilium.[3][4]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d S. P. Welles. 1947. Vertebrates from the Upper Moenkopi Formation of northern Arizona. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 27(7):241-294
  2. ^ A. P. Hunt, S. G. Lucas, and P. S. Spencer. 1998. A reassessment of the taxonomic affinities of the enigmatic tetrapod Anisodontosaurus greeri Welles 1947 from the Middle Triassic of western North America. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Monatshefte 1998(4):212-222
  3. ^ R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. 1-698
  4. ^ S. J. Nesbitt. 2005. The Moenkopi Formation along the Little Colorado River in eastern Arizona. In S. J. Nesbitt, W. G. Parker, R. B. Irmis (eds.), Guidebook to the Triassic Formations of the Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona, Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 9:13-23


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