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Hipposaurus boonstrai
Taxonomy
Hipposaurus boonstrai was named by Haughton (1929). Its type specimen is SAM-PK-8950, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Klein Koedoeskop, Beaufort West, which is in a Capitanian terrestrial siliciclastic in South Africa.
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1929 | Hipposaurus boonstrai Haughton |
| 1952 | Hipposaurus major Boonstra p. 143 figs. 3-4 |
| 1969 | Hipposaurus boonstrai Boonstra |
| 1969 | Hipposaurus major Boonstra |
| 1989 | Hipposaurus boonstrai Sigogneau-Russell |
| 2006 | Hipposaurus boonstrai Sidor and Rubidge |
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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.
†Hipposaurus boonstrai Haughton 1929
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Invalid names: Hipposaurus major Boonstra 1952 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Capitanian or 264.28000 to 259.51000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Capitanian | South Africa (Western Cape) | Hipposaurus boonstrai, Hipposaurus major (type locality: 176314) |