Phanerosaurus
| Phanerosaurus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Diadectomorpha |
| Family: | †Diadectidae |
| Genus: | †Phanerosaurus Meyer, 1860 |
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Phanerosaurus is an extinct
paleontologist Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer named the type species P. naumanni in 1860 on the basis of several sacral and presacral vertebrae.[1] A second species, P. pugnax, was named in 1882 but placed in its own genus Stephanospondylus in 1905.[2]
Description
Like those of other diadectids, the vertebrae of Phanerosaurus are very wide. The
neural spines.[3]
References
- ^ Meyer, H. von (1860). "Phanerosaurus naumanni aus dem Sandstein des Rothliegenden in Deutschland". Palaeontographica. 7: 248–252.
- ^ Stappenbeck, R. (1905). "Uber Stephanospondylus n. g. und Phanerosaurus H. v. Meyer". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft. 57: 380–437.
- hdl:1807/24357.
