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| taxon = Aristosaurus |
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| type_species = '''''Aristosaurus erectus''''' |
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'''''Aristosaurus''''' is a dubious [[genus]] of [[extinct]] [[sauropodomorph]] from [[Early Jurassic]] (Hettangian-Sinemurian) of [[South Africa]]. |
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==Discovery and naming== |
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The type species, ''Aristosaurus erectus'' was named by [[Egbert Cornelis Nicolaas van Hoepen]] in 1920 for '''TrM 130''', a partial postcranial skeleton from the [[Clarens Formation]] of the Orange Free State in eastern South Africa.<ref>E. C. N. Van Hoepen. 1920. Contributions to the knowledge of the reptiles of the Karroo Formation. 5. A new dinosaur from the Stormberg Beds. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 7(2):77-92.</ref> ''Aristosaurus'' was considered a junior synonym of ''[[Gyposaurus]]'' by Steel (1970)<ref>R. Steel. 1970. Part 14. Saurischia. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1-87</ref> but Galton and Cluver (1976) treated it as valid.<ref>P. M. Galton and M. A. Cluver. 1976. Anchisaurus capensis (Broom) and a revision of the Anchisauridae (Reptilia, Saurischia). Annals of the South African Museum 69(6):121-159</ref> Cooper (1981) synonymized it with ''Massospondylus'',<ref>M. R. Cooper. 1981. The prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus carinatus Owen from Zimbabwe: its biology, mode of life and phylogenetic significance. Occasional Papers of the National Museums and Monuments of Rhodesia, Series B, Natural Sciences 6(10):689-840.</ref> but Galton and Upchurch (2004) designated it a nomen dubium.<ref>P. M. Galton and P. Upchurch. 2004. Prosauropoda. In D. B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmolska (eds.), The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley 232-258.</ref> |
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Revision as of 15:22, 6 August 2019
| Aristosaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Eusaurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Genus: | †Aristosaurus van Hoepen, 1920 |
| Type species | |
| Aristosaurus erectus van Hoepen, 1920
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Aristosaurus is a dubious genus of extinct sauropodomorph from Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) of South Africa.
Discovery and naming
The type species, Aristosaurus erectus was named by Egbert Cornelis Nicolaas van Hoepen in 1920 for TrM 130, a partial postcranial skeleton from the Clarens Formation of the Orange Free State in eastern South Africa.[1] Aristosaurus was considered a junior synonym of Gyposaurus by Steel (1970)[2] but Galton and Cluver (1976) treated it as valid.[3] Cooper (1981) synonymized it with Massospondylus,[4] but Galton and Upchurch (2004) designated it a nomen dubium.[5]
References
- ^ E. C. N. Van Hoepen. 1920. Contributions to the knowledge of the reptiles of the Karroo Formation. 5. A new dinosaur from the Stormberg Beds. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 7(2):77-92.
- ^ R. Steel. 1970. Part 14. Saurischia. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1-87
- ^ P. M. Galton and M. A. Cluver. 1976. Anchisaurus capensis (Broom) and a revision of the Anchisauridae (Reptilia, Saurischia). Annals of the South African Museum 69(6):121-159
- ^ M. R. Cooper. 1981. The prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus carinatus Owen from Zimbabwe: its biology, mode of life and phylogenetic significance. Occasional Papers of the National Museums and Monuments of Rhodesia, Series B, Natural Sciences 6(10):689-840.
- ^ P. M. Galton and P. Upchurch. 2004. Prosauropoda. In D. B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmolska (eds.), The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley 232-258.
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