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Chindesaurus ✝

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From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chindesaurus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	66908	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=66908

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Chindesaurus

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
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Theropoda
genus	Chindesaurus	Long and Murry 1995

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Chindesaurus	genus	belongs to Herrerasauridae	stated without evidence	Long and Murry, 1995
Chindesaurus	genus	belongs to Theropoda	stated without evidence	Hunt, 1996
Chindesaurus	genus	belongs to Herrerasauridae	stated without evidence	Murry and Long, 1997
Chindesaurus	genus	belongs to Saurischia	stated without evidence	Langer, 2004
Chindesaurus	genus	belongs to Dinosauriformes	implied	Irmis, 2005
Chindesaurus	genus	belongs to Saurischia	stated without evidence	Irmis et al., 2007
Chindesaurus	genus	belongs to Herrerasauridae	stated with evidence	Nesbitt et al., 2009
Chindesaurus	genus	belongs to Theropoda	stated with evidence	Martinez and Apaldetti, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

228 - 216 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

222 - 209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Theropoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Theropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Theropoda)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. A. Long and P. A. Murry. 1995. Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) tetrapods from the southwestern United States. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 4:1-254

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chindesaurus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Chindesaurus bryansmalli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	222 Ma Late/Upper Triassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1995	Chindesaurus Long and Murry pp. 172-173 figs. 176-190
1996	Chindesaurus Hunt p. 43A
1996	Chindesaurus Lucas and Heckert p. 77
1997	Chindesaurus Murry and Long p. 192
1997	Chindesaurus Novas p. 305
1997	Chindesaurus Sereno p. 455
1998	Chindesaurus Hunt et al. p. 521
2004	Chindesaurus Bittencourt and Kellner p. 39A

Year	Name and Author
2004	Chindesaurus Langer p. 27
2005	Chindesaurus Irmis p. 81
2007	Chindesaurus Irmis et al. p. 359
2007	Chindesaurus Nesbitt et al. p. 226
2009	Chindesaurus Nesbitt et al. p. 1532
2011	Chindesaurus Sues et al. p. 3462 fig. 3
2017	Chindesaurus Martinez and Apaldetti p. 502

References

Long R. A., Murry P. A. (1995) Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) tetrapods from the southwestern United States, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 4, 1-254

Sereno P. C. (1997) The origin and evolution of dinosaurs, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 25, 435-489

Hunt A. P., Lucas S. G., et al (1998) Late Triassic dinosaurs from the western United States, Géobios 31 4, 511-531

Langer M. C. (2004) Basal Saurischia, The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 25-46

Irmis R. B. (2005) The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation in northern Arizona, In S. J. Nesbitt, W. G. Parker, & R. B. Irmis (eds.), Guidebook to the Triassic Formations of the Colorado Plateau in Northern Arizona: Geology, Paleontology, and History. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 9, 63-88

Irmis R. B., Nesbitt S. J., et al (2007) A Late Triassic dinosauromorph assemblage from New Mexico and the rise of dinosaurs, Science 317, 358-361

Nesbitt S. J., Irmis R. B., et al (2007) A critical re-evaluation of the Late Triassic dinosaur taxa of North America, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 5 2, 209-243

Nesbitt S. J., Smith N. D., et al (2009) A complete skeleton of a Late Triassic saurischian and the early evolution of dinosaurs, Science 326, 1530-1533 doi:10.1126/science.1180350

Sues H.-D., Nesbitt S. J., et al (2011) A late-surviving basal theropod dinosaur from the latest Triassic of North America, Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278, 3459-3464 doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0410

Martinez R. N., Apaldetti C. (2017) A late Norian—Rhaetian coelophysid neotheropod (Dinosauria, Saurischia) from the Quebrada del Barro Formation, northwestern Argentina, Ameghiniana 54 5, 448-505 doi:10.5710/AMGH.09.04.2017.3065

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