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Crythiosaurus mongoliensis
Taxonomy
Crythiosaurus mongoliensis was named by Gilmore (1943). Its type specimen is AMNH 6629, a partial skeleton (imperfect skull, posterior portions of both rami, and two cervical vertebrae), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ulaan Khongil, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial gravel in the Hsanda Gol Formation of Mongolia. It is the type species of Crythiosaurus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1943 | Crythiosaurus mongoliensis Gilmore pp. 377-379 fig. 16 |
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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.
†Crythiosaurus mongoliensis Gilmore 1943
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Diagnosis
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Measurements
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| Source: infrao = infraorder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Pianka and Vitt 2003, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Oligocene or 33.90000 to 28.40000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Oligocene | Mongolia (Övörkhangai) | Crythiosaurus mongoliensis (type locality: 53978) |