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Colpodontosaurus cracens ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4968214	https://www.gbif.org/species/4968214
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	63185	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=63185

Rank

species

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Necrosauridae : Colpodontosaurus : Colpodontosaurus cracens

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Colpodontosaurus : Colpodontosaurus cracens

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Lepidosauromorpha
superorder	Lepidosauria
order	Squamata	Oppel 1811
-	Episquamata	Pyron et al. 2013
-	Toxicofera	Vidal and Hedges 2005
suborder	Anguimorpha	Fürbringer 1900
-	Anguiformes	Conrad 2006
infraorder	Platynota	Baur 1890
genus	Colpodontosaurus	Estes 1964
species	Colpodontosaurus cracens	Estes 1964

Generic Name

Colpodontosaurus

Scientific Name

Colpodontosaurus cracens Estes, 1964

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Colpodontosaurus cracens	species	belongs to Colpodontosaurus	stated with evidence	Estes, 1964
Colpodontosaurus cracens	species	belongs to Colpodontosaurus	stated without evidence	Estes and Berberian, 1970
Colpodontosaurus cracens	species	belongs to Colpodontosaurus	stated with evidence	Estes, 1983
Colpodontosaurus cracens	species	belongs to Colpodontosaurus	implied	Bryant, 1989
Colpodontosaurus cracens	species	belongs to Colpodontosaurus	stated without evidence	Peng et al., 2001

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. Estes. 1964. Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 49:1-187

Fossil Distribution

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1964	Colpodontosaurus cracens Estes pp. 127-128 fig. 60
1970	Colpodontosaurus cracens Estes and Berberian p. 5
1983	Colpodontosaurus cracens Estes p. 172 fig. 44h
1989	Colpodontosaurus cracens Bryant p. 47
2001	Colpodontosaurus cracens Peng et al. p. 29
2012	Colpodontosaurus cracens Longrich et al.

References

Estes R. (1964) Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 49, 1-187

Estes R., Berberian P. (1970) Paleoecology of a Late Cretaceous vertebrate community from Montana, Breviora 343, 1-35

Estes R. (1983) Sauria terrestria, Amphisbaenia, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie 10A, 1-249

Bryant L. J. (1989) Non-dinosaurian lower vertebrates across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Montana, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 134, 1-107

Peng J., Russell A. P., et al (2001) Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25, 1-54

Longrich N. R., Bhullar B.-A. S., et al (2012) Mass extinction of lizards and snakes at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 52, 21396-21401 doi:10.1073/pnas.1211526110

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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