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Technosaurus (meaning "Tech lizard", for Texas Tech University) is an extinct genus of Late Triassic dinosauriform, from the Late Triassic Bull Canyon Formation (Dockum Group) of Texas, United States.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4823092	https://www.gbif.org/species/4823092
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	38721	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38721

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Fabrosauridae : Technosaurus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Silesauridae : Technosaurus

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
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Silesauridae	Langer et al. 2010
-	Sulcimentisauria	Martz and Small 2019
genus	Technosaurus	Chatterjee 1984

Scientific Name

Technosaurus Chatterjee, 1984

Name Published In

Naturwissenschaften 71 (12)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Technosaurus	genus	belongs to Fabrosauridae	stated with evidence	Chatterjee, 1984
Technosaurus	genus	belongs to Fabrosauridae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Technosaurus	genus	belongs to Ornithischia	stated without evidence	Sereno, 1991
Technosaurus	genus	belongs to Prosauropoda	stated without evidence	Peng, 1997
Technosaurus	genus	belongs to Ornithischia	stated without evidence	Hunt et al., 1998
Technosaurus	genus	belongs to Ornithischia	stated with evidence	Norman et al., 2004
Technosaurus	genus	belongs to Ornithischia	stated without evidence	Lehman and Chatterjee, 2005
Technosaurus	genus	belongs to Archosauriformes	stated with evidence	Nesbitt et al., 2007
Technosaurus	genus	belongs to Silesauridae	stated with evidence	Nesbitt et al., 2010
Technosaurus	genus	belongs to Sulcimentisauria	stated with evidence	Martz and Small, 2019

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

228 - 209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

228 - 209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

S. Chatterjee. 1984. A new ornithischian dinosaur from the Triassic of North America. Naturwissenschaften 71:630-631

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Technosaurus smalli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1984	Technosaurus Chatterjee
1988	Technosaurus Carroll
1991	Technosaurus Sereno pp. 176-177
1994	Technosaurus Hunt and Lucas pp. 235-236
1997	Technosaurus Godefroit and Cuny p. 21
1997	Technosaurus Murry and Long p. 193
1997	Technosaurus Peng p. 237–238

Year	Name and Author
1998	Technosaurus Hunt et al. p. 521
2004	Technosaurus Norman et al. p. 326
2005	Technosaurus Lehman and Chatterjee pp. 344-345
2007	Technosaurus Nesbitt et al. p. 230
2010	Technosaurus Nesbitt et al. p. Supplement
2019	Technosaurus Martz and Small p. 53

References

Chatterjee S. (1984) A new ornithischian dinosaur from the Triassic of North America, Naturwissenschaften 71, 630-631

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Sereno P. C. (1991) Lesothosaurus, "fabrosaurids," and the early evolution of Ornithischia, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11 2, 168-197

Hunt A. P., Lucas S. G. (1994) Ornithischian dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of the United States, In N. C. Fraser & H.-D. Sues (eds.), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 227-241

Godefroit P., Cuny G. (1997) Archosauriform teeth from the Upper Triassic of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port (northeastern France), Palaeovertebrata 26 1-4, 1-34

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

Norman D. B., Witmer L. M., et al (2004) Basal Ornithischia, The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 325-334

Lehman T. M., Chatterjee S. (2005) Depositional setting and vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Triassic Dockum Group of Texas, Journal of Earth Systems Science 114 3, 325-351

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., Sidor C. A., et al (2010) Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira, Nature 464, 95-98 doi:10.1038/nature08718

Martz J. W., Small B. J. (2019) Non-dinosaurian dinosauromorphs from the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic) of the Eagle Basin, northern Colorado: Dromomeron romeri (Lagerpetidae) and a new taxon, Kwanasaurus williamparkeri (Silesauridae), PeerJ 7, e7551:1-71 doi:10.7717/peerj.7551

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Naturwissenschaften 71 (12) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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