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Coloradisaurus
Taxonomy
Coloradisaurus was named by Lambert (1983). Its type is Coloradia brevis.
It was assigned to Plateosauridae by Bonaparte (1984), Novas (1997), Galton and Upchurch (2004), Upchurch et al. (2007), Martínez (2009); and to Massospondylidae by Smith and Pol (2007), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Novas et al. (2011), Otero and Pol (2013), Apaldetti et al. (2013), McPhee et al. (2015), Chapelle et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Plateosauridae by Bonaparte (1984), Novas (1997), Galton and Upchurch (2004), Upchurch et al. (2007), Martínez (2009); and to Massospondylidae by Smith and Pol (2007), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Novas et al. (2011), Otero and Pol (2013), Apaldetti et al. (2013), McPhee et al. (2015), Chapelle et al. (2019).
Species
Entered
by M. Carrano on 2005-11-14; modified by M. Carrano on 2026-09-24
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1983 | Coloradisaurus Lambert |
| 1984 | Coloradisaurus Bonaparte p. 130 |
| 1997 | Coloradisaurus Novas p. 681 |
| 2004 | Coloradisaurus Galton and Upchurch p. 234 fig. 12.11 |
| 2007 | Coloradisaurus Smith and Pol p. 670 fig. 7 |
| 2007 | Coloradisaurus Upchurch et al. p. 62 fig. 3 |
| 2009 | Coloradisaurus Martínez p. 162 fig. 22 |
| 2010 | Coloradisaurus Yates p. 750 |
| 2011 | Coloradisaurus Apaldetti et al. p. 16 fig. 13 |
| 2011 | Coloradisaurus Novas et al. p. 341 fig. 4 |
| 2013 | Coloradisaurus Apaldetti et al. |
| 2013 | Coloradisaurus Otero and Pol |
| 2015 | Coloradisaurus McPhee et al. p. 19 fig. 12 |
| 2019 | Coloradisaurus Chapelle et al. |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Bambach et al. 2007, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004 | |||||