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Anasazisaurus horneri (Anasazi lizard)
Taxonomy
Anasazisaurus horneri was named by Hunt and Lucas (1993). Its type specimen is BYU 12950, a skull ( a poorly preserved skull includ-ing part of the premaxillae, nasals, right maxilla, lacrimal, jugal, prefrontal, postorbital, squamosal, frontal, parietal, and), and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Betonnie Tstosie Wash (BYU), which is in a Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Kirtland Formation of New Mexico.
It was synonymized subjectively with Kritosaurus navajovius by Williamson (2000), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2006), Godefroit et al. (2008), Prieto-Márquez (2010); it was recombined as Kritosaurus horneri by Lucas (1993), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2016), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2016), Lehman et al. (2016), Bertozzo et al. (2017).
It was synonymized subjectively with Kritosaurus navajovius by Williamson (2000), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2006), Godefroit et al. (2008), Prieto-Márquez (2010); it was recombined as Kritosaurus horneri by Lucas (1993), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2016), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2016), Lehman et al. (2016), Bertozzo et al. (2017).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1993 | Anasazisaurus horneri Hunt and Lucas |
| 1993 | Kritosaurus horneri Lucas fig. 19 |
| 1997 | Anasazisaurus horneri Ryan p. 391 |
| 2003 | Anasazisaurus horneri Sullivan and Lucas p. 102A |
| 2004 | Anasazisaurus horneri Horner et al. p. 439 |
| 2006 | Anasazisaurus horneri Kirkland et al. p. 311 fig. 13 |
| 2006 | Anasazisaurus horneri Lucas et al. p. 294 |
| 2006 | Anasazisaurus horneri Lund and Gates p. 270 |
| 2014 | Anasazisaurus horneri Sullivan and Lucas p. 371 |
| 2015 | Anasazisaurus horneri Jasinski p. 79 |
| 2016 | Kritosaurus horneri Lehman et al. p. 350 |
| 2016 | Kritosaurus horneri Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 3 |
| 2017 | Kritosaurus horneri Bertozzo et al. p. 13 |
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†Anasazisaurus horneri Hunt and Lucas 1993 [Anasazi lizard]
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas 1993 | A. horner (type species of the genus by monotype; holotype is BYU 12950) is a hadrosaurid that can be distinguished from all others by possessing a short, posteriorly folded nasal crest that is above the level of the frontals but does not extend posterior to the anterior end of the frontals. |
Measurements
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| References: Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (New Mexico) | Anasazisaurus horneri (type locality: 76753) |