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Phosphorosaurus

Osteichthyes - Mosasauridae

Taxonomy

Phosphorosaurus was named by Dollo (1889).

It was synonymized subjectively with Plioplatecarpus by Russell (1967).

It was assigned to Halisaurinae by Mateus et al. (2012), Konishi et al. (2016), Driscoll et al. (2019); and to Halisaurini by Longrich et al. (2021).

Species

P. ortliebi, P. ponpetelegans

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1889	Phosphorosaurus Dollo p. 68
2012	Phosphorosaurus Mateus et al.
2016	Phosphorosaurus Konishi et al.
2019	Phosphorosaurus Driscoll et al.
2021	Phosphorosaurus Longrich et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda

Rank	Name	Author
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
—	Squamata	()
family	Mosasauridae
—	Halisaurinae
—	Halisaurini
genus	Phosphorosaurus	Dollo 1889

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Phosphorosaurus Dollo 1889

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†Phosphorosaurus ortliebi Dollo 1889

†Phosphorosaurus ponpetelegans Konishi et al. 2016

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialuc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

aquaticf

Diet:

carnivoref

Vision:

well-developedf

Reproduction:

ovoviviparousf

Created:

2018-01-05 16:32:54

Modified:

2018-01-05 16:32:54

Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Gervais 1852, Carroll 1988

Age range: Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 72.20000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Angola (Namibe)	P. sp. (106705)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Belgium	Halisaurus ortliebi (82892)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Japan	P. ponpetelegans (194131)