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Sarahsaurus ✝

Description

Sarahsaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur which lived during the lower Jurassic period in what is now northeastern Arizona, United States.


From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarahsaurus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)8632677https://www.gbif.org/species/8632677
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)171910https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=171910
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Sarahsaurus
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Massospondylidae : Sarahsaurus
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
-Eosuchia
-NeodiapsidaBenton 1985
-SauriaGauthier 1984
-Archosauromorpha
-CrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
-EucrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-Archosauria
informalAvemetatarsaliaBenton 1999
-OrnithodiraGauthier 1986
-DinosauromorphaBenton 1985
-DinosauriformesNovas 1992
-Dinosauria
-Saurischia
-EusaurischiaPadian et al. 1999
-Sauropodomorpha
-MassopodaYates 2007
familyMassospondylidaeHuene 1914
genusSarahsaurusRowe et al. 2011
Scientific NameSarahsaurus Rowe et al., 2011
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Sarahsaurusgenusbelongs to Plateosauriastated with evidenceApaldetti et al., 2011
Sarahsaurusgenusbelongs to Sauropodomorphastated with evidenceRowe et al., 2011
Sarahsaurusgenusbelongs to Massopodastated with evidenceOtero and Pol, 2013
Sarahsaurusgenusbelongs to Massospondylidaestated with evidenceChapelle et al., 2019
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
First Recorded Appearance199 - 183 Ma
Early Jurassic
Last Recorded Appearance199 - 183 Ma
Early Jurassic
Environmentterrestrial (based on Diapsida)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)T. B. Rowe, H.-D. Sues, and R. R. Reisz. 2011. Dispersal and diversity in the earliest North American sauropodomorph dinosaurs, with a description of a new taxon. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278:1044-1053
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarahsaurus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Sarahsaurus aurifontanalis ✝
species		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		2199 Ma
Early Jurassic		199 Ma
Early Jurassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
2011Sarahsaurus Apaldetti et al. p. 16 fig. 13
2011Sarahsaurus Rowe et al.
2013Sarahsaurus Otero and Pol
2019Sarahsaurus Chapelle et al.

References

Rowe T. B., Sues H.-D., et al (2011) Dispersal and diversity in the earliest North American sauropodomorph dinosaurs, with a description of a new taxon, Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278, 1044-1053 doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.1867
Apaldetti C., Martinez R. N., et al (2011) A new basal sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from Quebrada del Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin), Northwestern Argentina, PLoS ONE 6 11, e26964:1-19 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026964
Otero A., Pol D. (2013) Postcranial anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Mussaurus patagonicus (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 5, 1138-1168
Chapelle K. E. J., Barrett P. M., et al (2019) Ngwevu intloko: a new early sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa and comments on cranial ontogeny in Massospondylus carinatus, PeerJ 7, e7240:1-59 doi:10.7717/peerj.7240
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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