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Technosaurus smalli ✝

Description

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_smalli, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4967928https://www.gbif.org/species/4967928
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)67090https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=67090
Rankspecies
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Fabrosauridae : Technosaurus : Technosaurus smalli
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Silesauridae : Technosaurus : Technosaurus smalli
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
-SilesauridaeLanger et al. 2010
-SulcimentisauriaMartz and Small 2019
genusTechnosaurusChatterjee 1984
speciesTechnosaurus smalliChatterjee 1984
Generic NameTechnosaurus
Scientific NameTechnosaurus smalli Chatterjee, 1984
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Technosaurus smallispeciesbelongs to Technosaurusstated without evidenceChatterjee, 1984
Technosaurus smallispeciesbelongs to Technosaurusstated with evidenceNorman et al., 2004
Technosaurus smallispeciesbelongs to Technosaurusstated without evidenceNesbitt et al., 2007
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance228 - 209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Last Recorded Appearance228 - 209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Environmentterrestrial (based on Diapsida)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)S. Chatterjee. 1984. A new ornithischian dinosaur from the Triassic of North America. Naturwissenschaften 71:630-631
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technosaurus_smalli

Fossil Distribution

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1984Technosaurus smalli Chatterjee p. 631 fig. 1
1991Technosaurus smalli Sereno pp. 176-177
1994Technosaurus smalli Hunt and Lucas pp. 235-236
1997Technosaurus smalli Godefroit and Cuny p. 21
1997Technosaurus smalli Murry and Long p. 193
1997Technosaurus smalli Peng p. 237
1998Technosaurus smalli Heckert and Lucas p. 59
YearName and Author
1998Technosaurus smalli Hunt et al. p. 521
2004Technosaurus smalli Norman et al. p. 326
2007Technosaurus smalli Irmis et al. p. 8
2007Technosaurus smalli Nesbitt et al. p. 230
2010Technosaurus smalli Langer et al. p. 59
2012Technosaurus smalli Kammerer et al. p. 277
2019Technosaurus smalli Martz and Small p. 2

References

Chatterjee S. (1984) A new ornithischian dinosaur from the Triassic of North America, Naturwissenschaften 71, 630-631
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
Irmis R. B., Parker W. G., et al (2007) Early ornithischian dinosaurs: the Triassic record, Historical Biology 19 1, 3-22 doi:10.1080/08912960600719988
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
Langer M. C., Ezcurra M. D., et al (2010) The origin and early evolution of dinosaurs, Biological Reviews 85, 55-110 doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00094.x
Kammerer C. F., Nesbitt S. J., et al (2012) The first basal dinosauriform (Silesauridae) from the Late Triassic of Morocco, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 2, 277-284 doi:10.4202/app.2011.0015
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
D. B. Norman, L. M. Witmer, D. B. Weishampel (2004) Basal Ornithischia: The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley: 325--334 - via Catalogue of Life
S. Chatterjee (1984) A new ornithischian dinosaur from the Triassic of North America: Naturwissenschaften: 630--631 - via Catalogue of Life
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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