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Calamosaurus foxi

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Calamospondylus foxi was named by Lydekker (1889). Its type specimen is BMNH R.901, a set of vertebrae (cervical vertebra), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Isle of Wight (general), which is in a Barremian/Aptian terrestrial horizon in the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Calamospondylus, Calamosaurus.

It was misspelled as Calamospondylus foxii by Nopcsa (1901), Huene (1923), Swinton (1936), Kuhn (1939), Steel (1970), Blows (1983) and Hutt et al. (1996); it was considered a nomen dubium by Naish et al. (2001); it was misspelled as Calamosaurus foxii by Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo (2003); it was considered a nomen dubium by Holtz et al. (2004); it was recombined as Calamosaurus foxi by Lydekker (1891), Van Den Broeck (1900), Molnar and Pledge (1980), Naish and Martill (2007) and Naish and Sweetman (2011).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1889Calamospondylus foxi Lydekker pp. 119-121 fig. 1
1889Calamospondylus foxi Newton p. 260
1890Calamospondylus foxi Woodward and Sherborn p. 212
1891Calamosaurus foxi Lydekker pp. 42-43
1900Calamosaurus foxi Van Den Broeck p. 80ff
1901Calamospondylus foxii Nopcsa p. 202
1923Calamospondylus foxi Huene p. 455
1936Calamospondylus foxi Swinton pp. 206-207
1939Calamospondylus foxi Kuhn p. 45
1970Calamospondylus foxi Steel p. 13
1980Calamosaurus foxi Molnar and Pledge p. 283
1983Calamospondylus foxi Blows p. 306
1996Calamospondylus foxi Hutt et al. p. 636
2003Calamosaurus foxii Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo p. 297
2007Calamosaurus foxi Naish and Martill p. 504
2011Calamosaurus foxi Naish and Sweetman

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
superfamilyTyrannosauroidea
genusCalamosaurus
speciesfoxi()

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.

†Calamosaurus foxi Lydekker 1889
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:39:15
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:39:15
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983

Age range: base of the Barremian to the top of the Early/Lower Aptian or 129.40000 to 122.46000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Barremian - Early/Lower Aptian129.4 - 122.46United Kingdom (England) Calamospondylus foxi (92917)